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K.mu uml w* never Had hot buns like Mildred on the top bunks, the;els _ of (he hol lanl and vinegarand Honey spin.” older, less attract* ones on the wnsh a,| }ong walk t0 Bcrt^hi the summer of 1!)3» the high- bottom. 0ne 0, tIiu listeners was Leonway past the. Svhimller farm, That, explains the young. janzen, whose • parents. Mr. andwhich led to Poland was clogged bride, was so when the soldiers Mrs. Wilbert Janzen arc leadingwith soldiers and Mild r e d came looking tor girls at night, I farmers in ,he community, watched them trom the potato;they would see. the old owmci.j .-He ,vas the bashful type, Mil-field. The government ordered Mildred was in tile work elirei, Hilvs wiUl that age-old wont-farmers to turn over all surplus three weeks when the war ended an-s smile, hut he had a sisterproduction to the -state. and the joyous Russian! hurrying in i(.|,ool with me, and that‘’but it was easy to fool them.*’ to Berlin, turned their captives helped.”I 1 1 . . * 1«. aiki'til .1 I t ■ 11 — _ . * . ! XAfter graduation, she went toMildred says slyly. We'd butcher loose. When Mildred found heia 1 alt in the dark and keep back mother. Kntu Schindler washed: work for Ed Staeber in the Lor-soine milk and eggs. the lice out of her hair with hot'^ £ to Sank' She is a ^vmdtcbriVA Schindler didn't go to wav, vinegar. of cvcryone in lhe mUe {ovm: Hav.but was put m charge of a When they reached home. Mi!-Sry the postmaster and Harry giuup of iarms whose younger dred found her birth certificate, Schmidt who runs the hardware owners were drafted. A polish and under a stone m the cellar, where,alui Roy Whiteman at the Lorrainea i* reach 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 Kus-;{n Harry Folks' domino parlor and never came back from Stalingrad, Man soldiers had ripped up lhe 1 the folks who trade at the Myers But the big planes from England,cellar floor, but has missed a few, Smith garage and Peters gro-didn t range as far as Radach.j stones. By that narrow a margin! eery.’Mostly,” says Mildred, “we did* was Mildred Schindler able to; “You bet site’s a good girl,”, n’t know there was a war.” prove she was an American ancllsays Mrs. Teresa Dobrinski whom!Sar came in the spring of; come back to Kansas. jMildred lived with after she came;1945 when the Russians and Amer-j Even so, the journey wasn’t;to town to work in the bank. Mrs.;1 r l-i it air, n ■] i n .1 i I. . ! j • lt;•-« . Ileans raced toward their meeting, easy. Frau Schindler scarcely had at the Elbe. It was the Russians;cleaned the house and got the po-who came first to Radach. ;taloes planted when a new enemyThe Germans met them there; came. Russia had given BrtmdenDobrinski herself came fro rn Germany, 50 years ago.Last summer Mildred got an unexpected letter from Berlin. HerIn Hitler’s lastjsftort tojburg to Poland. The Polish sol- mother and brother had slipped!through the iron curtain. Mildred'%applied for them to come to her new farm home as displaced per-; sons. Along with writing thank you; notes for her wedding presents,) she was busy last week filling outj complicated government forms.' She hopes they will be here byhold the eastern front. The battle idlers came as the Germans and see-sawed across the Schindler; Russians before them, and or* farm. Shells tore holes in the slatejderetl the Schindlers out. roof and shattered the windows! We had only a few minutes tot and then Russian troops moved!get ready. My mother was sickjfru jand when I told the soldier weSchindler plodded through h i sj couldn’t move her, he offered to chores, a Russian tommy gun al-j shoot her.”ways at his hack. The Peoples's Escorted to Frankfurt on the new j August, army dumped all Frau Schindler’s; German border, the Schindlers “I never want lo leave here,” molasses on her kitchen floor and!were turned loose. They walked;Mildred says. “Unless the Rus-added the innards of feather;the 60-odd miles to Berlin, eat-jsians come. Then, they won’t find bed ust for the hell of it, jing raw potatoes and grass along me here,” \When they retreated, the Rus- the way. Mildred does not agree it is imsians herded the population of Ra- “Don’t complain about spinach,” possible for the Russians to com©
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, May 03, 1953
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