Translation from Germany to English below:
A Child from Berlin Flies to New York
Yesterday morning at 11.50, the American plane “Flagship Amsterdam” took off from Tempelhof on its first flight back to New York. Among the passengers was the well-known American journalist Louis P Lochner.
This time he is bringing not only the most recent news to New York, but also the youngest Atlantic passenger in the world, the little three-and-a-half-year-old Bella, who was adopted six months ago by the USA Sergeant Simons in Belsen.
Bella Simons, as she is called now, is from Berlin. Her parents were deported by the Nazis. Her adoptive father, who will travel to America in about three weeks, has made it possible for her to make the long journey by plane. Little Bella is the first German citizen who has been allowed to emigrate to America, and so the American Consulate in Berlin has given her Visa No 1.
The little one lived in Berlin with the Altwein family in Hobrechtstrasse in Neukoelln, where she was given motherly care by Mrs Altwein, a friendly lady in the prime of life. The child loves her new Papa and wonders a little why he is not coming along in the big plane. But Mr Lochner is consoling her, and Miss Grace, the stewardess, has made sure of a supply of sweets.
So the first return flight of the ocean runner of American Overseas Airlines has its story, and tomorrow morning the picture of little Bella will be seen on the front pages of a thousand USA papers: the first Berliner in New York.
