SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1945-09-27
Shlue bon Sette /.

ana SOOt that ne maze 1t pos
slble tor us to get your letters,--
the one you wrote the 10Th Of
June and the other The 9TH of
July, also he was pretty far
off. suppose they won't remain
long there where they are now
either. They are always moved
to other stations when they are
about three weeks in one. If it
had not been for him, we probab- :
ly would not have heard OF each
other 10; years yet-for, dear
Mary, its not sure hat we will
ever go nome to Pennsylvania
again, TO-. we have heard that the
Romania Is and the Hungarians
don't want to have the Saxon
people back again, and you know
Pennsylvania will either belong
to Ronailia or Hungary or Rus
sia. You know the Russians oc-
cupied Pennsylvania. Eear folks,
you just cannot imagine, how
hard and bitter it was for us, to
leave oul homes whi>h our an
cestors have held for the last 800
years.
In my first letter ! simply let
you know where we are and that
we are a., we'll and together, up
to this day--Now | will tell you
in snort way, when and how we
came away from our beloved
home!
A few weeks before we left,
the p-op'e kept saying one to the
other: I'VE may have to evacu-
ate f, ON here" for the battle
place came nearer daily. AT
first most people dent believe
that suc! a thing couln be. So VIC
never believed it either. We, also
others, kept working, harvesting
in the fields, gathering corn, oats,
wheat, and many other things
that grow.
Ali at once the order came on
Saturday afternoon:
"M onday morning at nine
o'clock all inhabitants Of the will.
age should be ready with wagons
| to leave Tor a couple Of weeks.
1t was said, that we were to &C
] Into the inner of Hungary for !;
couple Of days or so with wagon:
and hoises. And in the meantime
the Russians would be thrown
back again. and we would come
home again. -
Well, we took so'ne food OF
the way, some clothing-for there
was little room left. where6 mem
| bers of the family had TO sit, or
the wagon | mean. - 1t was the
l8. of September 1914, autumn
| when almost everything was har
vestet and gathered from the
fields. except the potatoes, apple:
| and GRAPES. And God had blessed
us in the passed year with Sc
| much and many of everything
that grows that we hardly knew
| where to store away everything
Old iolkA> said that in the pas
Is years they could not remem
! ber such blessing in the field:
like TINS year. - We worked thu
| whole summer and now when
| everything was ready and done
we had TO come away and leave
| everything where it stood: oats
wheat, corn and other crops
hundreds of bushels, the stable!
filled with cattle. we had l8,
! horses ard so sheep. pigs and
well, l c;.n't count up everything
I-encugn was left there where i
was, and, we had to come away.
We were told that the cattle
pigs and crops the soldiers woult
gather and drive them away. -
Whether they did it. we do no
know. = We know only. tina
about two weeks later the wa
ragged in our towns and place
around our villages. We don
know if our homes are destroyed
or not. = We didn't hear a singl,
thing since we came away AM
that's about 10 months ago, now
Did you folks know that w
had to come away from Transyl
vania You know. - not only
few, but the whole Saxon peopl
from Pennsylvania the part tina
belonged to Hungaria. = Th
larger part ofTransylvania, which
belonged to the Roamanians. wa