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Jillijj;; v.nn her 1. 'education nesan when she wentbakm;;s hi pfeska- mms,* The sobhors saw the wan face lo work iR Su Ha,e hospital’s diet and lobkucuen and spnmgorlo •— nnd sniffed the lard and hunted kprjjenthe ^n.;,u German holiday rookies. elsewhere. “Even n you're not .*f tkmk j sometimes got the Eater, she walked m the fields, siek. that hot laid will do U.” mixed up,” she* admits. “Ibehind !11y‘ luster, picking up the Mildred finally was taken from hope no one died ’’raws of potatoes. And she walked her mother and hustled to a work ymr.se friends at the mospitalm the forest after berries with vamp, ordered to wash iw rough: urgC(i her to go to high school, her brother Hurst who was four flannel shirks a day in a wooden she WHS* admittedly fright*.-•V U.S younger. ab and do it with m small piece. ened, She had become acquainted■Sim know vaguely she couldn't »t soap. When twy discovered wilh Mr. ancl Mrs. Carl Dobnimkffro kH'Vound oiKku Rtaoos ,h srhooi dn-t. they slapped you in the who liS(! near Lorraine, arranged■ I•cause her fatlier was not a Na,:i'face with the wet shirts.”party member. But she does notrrecall any of tlie horror of Hitler p vepa ung for the h 1 ood bath except for one faint memory.to live with them and enrolled in Lorraine rural high school in theIn three days her hands wornbleeding; raw. She refusedwork.to“Some Jewish people ran (ho hilt;ri» where wo traded, Horst and I would be half frozen when we’d go there in the sleigh alter groceries. The storekeeper’s uifo always had hot. buns for us, with honey on them. I remember oiico \vo went and the store was dark and the windows were broken. My father came back to the sleigh and said theMrs. Dobrtnski was a former ■•I hold nut my hands to tin, gM[fih !(?;tcher anf, hclped m.subtler Ho had one of thoso ,lrcfl wi)h ,lcr nomework. Whenguns with (lie lug drum for Inil- ;,3bo graduated with the class of lets I ,vus crying and I said |al Enplish was hpr f;lvonle sub.•I know you will shot me, hut jcol an(i she was gcttjng Aa anclI won’t wash anymore.’ An of- !Bsfleer looked at my hands and j ‘She found, at Lorraine, a com-alter that I worked in the immitv as German as ttadach, but fieldsa rich, quiet farm community, far“Von take I hose chances, you rcmovef| from the lroublcs of thedon t care anymore. people of Hadach. She spoke at awomen Sjtfept in barracks, on church young peoples meeting one Storekeeper and his wife Bern ;straw covered bunks. younger girls nighti telling the storv of her trav-gouu ami wo never had hot lnms like Mildred on the top bunks, the^ _ of (he UoL lar(J and vinegarand honey again. older, loss attractive ones on the wnsh an(1 ,ong walk t0 Bcrll»In the summer of TO» the high- hotlom. 0ne tho listeners was Leonway past the. Schtndler farm, That, explains the young. J;uuen, whose • parents, Mr. andwhich led lo Poland was dogged bride, was so when the soldiers Mrs. Wilbert Janzen arc leadingwith soldiers and Mild r e d came looking tor girls at night, I flirmers in ,he community,watched thorn tioin the potato;they would .see the old owmen.”j “He was the bashful type Mil-field. The government ordered Mildred was in the work clirCl, Kavs with that age-old worn-far, m® to turn over all surplus three weeks when the war ended an's smile, but he had a sister production to the state. and the joyous Russians, hurrying.in s(.b0ol with me, and that“but it was ea.sy lo fool them.” to Berlin, turned their captives helped ”Mddrcd says Slyly. We'd butcher loose. When Mildred found herj After graduation, .she went to a calf ill the dark and keep bark mother, Frau Schindler washed ,Vork for Ed staeber in the Lor-soine milk and eggs. the bee out of her hair with hotline Mato haiS She is a ^vmdteb ntz bclnnciler didn't go to wav, vinegar. of everyone in the litUe town: Hat-but was put m charge of a When they reached home. Mil-.ry Difrgs u,e postmaster and Harry: guuip of farms whose younger died found her birth certificate. ScHniett who runs the hardware owners were drafted. A polish and under a stone in the collar, where, a„d Roy Whiteman at the Lorrainea brooch prisoner were sent to her father had buried it along with cafe and fellows who pass the timehelp with the farm work. An uncle other family valuables. The Ru.s-‘in Harry Folks’ domino parlor and
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, May 03, 1953
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