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I was actually from Tilsit, just northeast of Königsberg.

The following day I left my small apartment near the museum and took a train to Tilsit.

I thought of our warm kitchen at home in Tilsit, the soft ring of the lids trembling on their pots, and my sister’s laughter echoing throughout the house.

I wondered if the Russians had taken Tilsit yet.

As a small boy in Tilsit, I once found my way inside the pipe organ of a local church.