(Rewritten
by Eva Hallam Solberg from notes by Sudbrack plus an interview)
“One morning at breakfast, we were told that a ship had hit an iceberg
and sunk during the night. The ‘unsinkable Titanic’ was on its maiden voyage.
Soon we, too, were among the icebergs.”
Reinhard Sudbrack was 11 years old when his parents sent for him to
join them in Saco, Montana, in 1912. They had journeyed to
He rode with Herman Breipohl Sr., who had returned to
“We became seasick after a storm at sea. When we felt better, we
ordered roast goose to eat. For dessert we were served bananas, a delicacy we
had never seen before. They were soft, and so we threw them away, thinking they
were rotten!”