Rebecca Aspen

Rebecca Aspen (Photograph; aged 14)

**Rebecca Aspen** (Rebecca Tatiana Theodore Aspen; 31 December 1900) is the owner of the Austrian Castle, Schloss Hartheim, her parents having bought it back; as a member of the Aspen Family, the castle technically belonged to her. The patients that had once been treated here were transferred to another facility, with Rebecca`s parents using the wealth they had inherited to turn it back into the majestic castle it used to be; even rebuilding some parts of the castle. The eldest of Duke Wilhelm Aspen and Duchess Viola Aspen`s children, she was nicknamed the "Angel" by members of her own family. In May 1940, Schloss Hartheim, was seized from her family`s possession by the German Government forcing the family to move from their ancestral home to a run-down castle; in November of 1940, the family was accosted by the German Government and sentenced to death underneath wavered charges. Rebecca Aspen`s only brother (Luke Aspen) would be taken from them by the German Government and executed in a gas chamber constructed in their ancestral family castle, while the rest of their family escaped from Austria, fleeing to Switzerland. Luke would be the only member of their family to be murdered in such a way, the events of his death would be revealed through his corpse; the family was traumatized by the events of that night with Rebecca sobbing at the very mention of Luke`s name. In 23 December 1915, she married Duke Harrison Winters, who added on his wife`s surname to his own surname; the happy couple enjoyed two years of a wonderful, loving marriage before it dissolved upon the birth of their third son, Mordred Aspen. Duke Harrison would die in his sleep ending the happy fairytale that their life had once been, Rebecca`s life was irreversibly shattered into pieces; after the events of Luke`s death and her own beloved husband`s death, her younger siblings and heavily worried parents discovered that she had PTSD. Her PTSD was so severe that she would wake up screaming, eventually she was air-lifted to an American hospital to keep her safe; the rest of the family who were still living in Switzerland encountered Nazi soldiers when they went outside of Switzerland`s borders. They were forced to escape for their life, with one of Rebecca`s children (Raphael Aspen) being captured by the Nazi Party; he was murdered in the gas chamber like his maternal uncle (Luke Aspen). Her youngest child (Mordred Aspen) was so traumatized by this event that he developed PTSD that he had to be air-lifted out of German-annexed Territory; her parents were the next to be captured and died in the gas chamber. Theodore, Tatiana, Alice, Ravenna, and Luka escaped from German-annexed territory into Britain; their refugee status made them less desirable, their trauma-filled story made them the subject of much intrigue as well as public scrutiny. Theodore Aspen (the eldest of her younger sisters/siblings), married the British scientist, Edward Kirkland, the mortal son of Arthur Kirkland and his 'first' wife, Dana Spencer. After the end of the Great World (as it would come to be known), Rebecca traveled to Great Britain on an American ship and reunited with her children; the last chapter in her tragic story would end with her reunion with her children. She never remarried, though after the Second World War, she forcibly took her ancestral family castle back and dismantled the things installed in the castle during the Nazi era; she moved her family back into the castle in Austria and handed over all documents accumulated at the hospital during the Nazi-occupation-era to American Forces for usage in the Nuremburg trials.