[WJ] It was a different world that Betty Grebenschikoff and Ana MarÃa Wahrenberg grew up in, living in Berlin in the 1930s.The two girls met when they were 6, and participated in many activities together. They went to the same school and synagogue, had ballet lessons together, and became fast friends.
As the climate changed, though, and their hometown became more and more hostile, the girls’ families knew they needed to move. So on one spring day in 1939, the girls said their final farewell.
"We did not want to separate," Wahrenberg told The Washington Post. "We loved each other very much.