Who were our ancestors? Where did they come from? Who did not wonder about these questions, . Free at last, people return to their Ormersviller homes, when there was still was one standing. Most of the village had been destroyed, with one part of the village (called Selven) relatively unscathed. Many inhabitants stayed in their basements if they could and until the roofs and walls were repaired. Houses too damaged were bulldozed . War prisoners were sent to de-mine fields. The French Government built temporary barracks for family whose houses were totally destroyed. 4 barracks house 15 families and war prisoners. They had no running water nor electricity. The school reopens in 1945 and the bell from St Joseph’s chapel is exhumed from the tomb where it had been hidden, and is installed on a stand against the school wall. While life was tough, people were free again, and compared to the suffering of the previous 7 years, it must have been sweet in their hearts.