On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family’s rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt fo
On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl named Grethe Schmidt left her family’s rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years
