SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1945-09-27
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cold, mixed with sunshine and
| dust. we were stationed along
! the border of Slovakia in Ger
many. There we were treatet
pretty fair. = We arrived the 4th
of November. Us, Burghallers,
| they placed in i3 villages, As
! families in one place We remain
ed there for five months. Then
| again We had to park our wa
gons 'and the Gypsy life continu-
ed, for the Russians were near
again. and the battle place again
crossed our way.
We fled. after we heard, that
the font lines were held there
for almost two weeks. so that the
places where we were, were COM
pletely destroyed. = After three
weeks of travel we arrived i'll
Bavaria, at Our present address.
| Morer che, your mother will
| know her real we'll, who was SO
long in america. died here, after
we arrived. And yau can tell Mrs.
L., who lived 80 long on
Bowman Street, that her sister
and brother-in-law died, while
we were still at home. - God did
them we'll
| We a'e all, the different
families. / mean. stationed or
rather placed on la.ge farms,
wher~ VIC all work like slaves
These people here (not quite all,
but mos OF them are like stones
they have hearts of rocks; they
/ have moi had experience with the
Horridncss of War mere in the
county, on the farms. - The
large towns are all destroyed,
but the farmers have their sta
bles and barns full. But some of
them wont give All egg or an
ounc. of bread to anyone. The
folks. where we are. are pretty
fair to Us, but we have to work
like hired servants.
1t is q hard to be under or
ders. when we think back, -
what we all had at home - how
many people we had, working for
us in our fields. - But we were
better and kinder to them, as
these arc 10 us, altno we had
! mostly komanlans working for
us.
Dearest Mary:
| New VIC stand here and we do
not knew what will become OF
us. - The money we had is slip
ping slowly away. We got
stamps, each member OF the ia.
mily, foI bread, meat, milk and
so forth.1'his of course not much
but still we come ou' while we
get to cat at our farmC, the days
when We work for them, - but
we get rothing else - When we
will get away from here, - and
where. God knows, we don't
know. We heard once, that we
nigh get settled in Canada, OF
in South France, or i'll a part OF
| Austria. For sure, we don't
know. -. That is, if i.,e Roman.
ians ami Hungarians won't have
us back again. - Yot know they
never liked us while we were
: smarter and understood things
better than they did.
u Dear iolks: We have talked
here among us, would it not be
possible for us to emigrate to
America, that is, if we won't &C
back home any more. We are si>
/. persons; our three children art
pretty grown up and we coulc
get on c iarm, and may be work
it 'on halves at first, until we ge,
, one for ourselves. The same mino
has cur neighbor, your cousir
George, too, - They are on ths
, nearest rarm to us here. - Wha
!, do you .olks say to this? Coult
+; not we get little help from you
if il wolld be allowed?
} overrun by the Russians, wher
the Romanians surrendered tt
them, in spring 1914, SO that th'
"Niderianders" (Saxons in tina
part) didn't have a chance t.
, come away.
The people of village or towl
came away always at once.-W'
came away from our little village
in 65 wagons. No one remained
there! Other villages came a
couple of hours later, so that il
a week AZ (forty-two' village
| with over 4O,OCO (forty-thou
SANDY people came away into al
] unknown future.-Well,we fwer,
=. told tnal we came into a certain