A Piece of Home: Ickerner Postcard Makes It Canada

It is normal for many people to send postcards from vacation. However, postcards from Eckern’s Castrop-Roxelle district rarely go round the world. But now the same thing has happened. An “ecard” has now come a long way from Ikern to North America.

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