After the liberation, the camp was quarantined because of a typhus epidemic. At the beginning of July 1945, a bus brought the 13 survivors from Württemberg to Stuttgart.

The new owners of the house in Jebenhausen provided Inge and her parents with a room. American occupation soldiers often came to them with gifts and sweets. In May 1946, the family emigrated to the United States at the first available opportunity.

It was a difficult new beginning in New York. Inge fell ill with tuberculosis and therefore had to spend two years in the hospital. Again and again, she had to interrupt her school education because of her illness. The antibiotic streptomycin, discovered by Dr. Albrecht Schatz, saved her life. Inge studied and became a chemist.