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Faded, DirtyPaper SavesLorraine GirlBy JOHN McCORMALLY .LORRAINE — Anyone born in Great Bend, Kans., as Mildred Schindler was in 1929, would obviously be an American.But when an army officer in Berlin's American sector, in the winter of 1945. looked up from the dirty, water soaked, nearly illegible birth certificate and said, “My dear girl, you ARK an American,” Mildred was confused andshesurprised.“X never knew it before,” says. “I was so glad. . .”That was the most exciting moment in Mildred Schindler's life— until yesterday, when Rev. Alfred R. Bemadt said some other exciting words in the First Baptist church of Lorraine, which made Mildred the wife of Leon Janzen.MILDRED SCHINDLER . . . Here to stay , . •Their Ellsworth county farm will: he Mildred’s first home of her own since the April day e i g h tj years ago when the Russians; | came to the Schindler farm near Radaeh, in the province of Brandenburg in what is now Poland.The wedding was typical, except! that the bride’s mother was not there. She is in a displaced per*'sons camp m Kniebis, near Ger-; !many’s Swiss border. dach before them. The SchindlersMildred quips, You ought to tryput a few belongings in a horse grass.”How this slender, blonde girl, drawn cart. When the soldiers took; They went into the Americanwith the dimpled chin, journeyed,'the horse, they found a crippled;2onGj j)Ut ?}]e Americans turned between her birth and her wed-one, when that was taken, theyithem hack to the Russians, They ding, from Central Kansas to Ger--found an ox. jwcre sent to a camp in Gustrow,;many and Poland and back again:; *•( don’t know now far we went.” north of Berlin. Frau Schindler anti what sne saw and suffered* ^[^dred says. Maybe only as far knew the Russians would soon along the way, are stories thatias from here to Ellsworth. Bui want her daughter again. Shecould happend only in this nnul /j seems a long way when you wrangled Mildred a permit to gocentury, walk.” The column thinned as the back to Berlin on the pretense theFritz Schindler, who was Mil*,soldiers pulled out the able bodied family winter clothing had beendeed's lather and who is now mon an(j the girls. At Trebow, left there with relatives. She toldmust likely dead, came from Ger- near the Polish border, thev took Mildred not to come hack.ft »
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, May 03, 1953
Page 15
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