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cemmy, walk. ' The column thinned as the hack to bcnm on the pretense theFrit:-: Schindler, who was Mil* soldiers pulled out the able bodied family winter clothing had been deed's lather and who is now men an(j the girls. At Trebow, left there with relatives. She told must likely dead, came from tier- near the Polish border, they took Mildred not to come hack, many to Ins uncle Charles Herb’s Fritz Schindler. His family never Knlutives got Mlklred and her farm in Barton county m ltd. saw }dm aonin. A relative who Great Bend birth certificate be-rive years later, his Anna joined survived, told of seeing h i m fore American military govern-lum and three years after t I1, a t dogged. .merit authorities ■— although theyMii'ircu Wii, n-cn. She wc.s six i-pports re died — hdn’i know the certificate made! , ,,hi SI !hsy ba,,|L tu JV-iand. M,i2 in S.Ihm-,1' her In American. They justt.ot u*fc;y w..ore .-ut.: I it MiMuM Su;.;,. thought it might help.lt;»v.-r tne i umly i.o.m near lie ‘ ' Mildred waited a ’-ear in an■.a \oi'r.vi*. Her husband gone. 1* rail behin- . *■...on. in«. u.ni »».. American displaced persons camp.an; of the s tune house wuii its ,l 11 1 '}U[ ^ *'* _ ° ,n ® 1 H*^ 0lt;UG^ “It was wondei iu!. We didn’t haveshoe roof, standing peacefully m °U y ° ** work only keep our roomsthe fields «!. rye and potato*::*. u. oip jl, n«»at — and, oil! the. weiners antidiie 'loca not remember that in .Saturday's pretty bride f‘15e saueikraui tiius.e years her country was pro* owed her life to her unattractive- Gn ^j1£1 s^jp corning over sheBumf to tc:ir i:*eif W mi.', S« » the prowling younf Rns- was,* ;,ira;il ilnvmm'e. She ' slept*mn Frail Schindler did 0,i |le boUom ,mnk The ,ml| Knf,.Sim learned iigfjul the tiellsme*. a Klt;»*f job. u,h shfi kn#w when sha arrived,lo who comes early in December' “She put flpur on my face so £v.{^ “yes no am* colt;,s ” and is more important than .Sanla I’d look pale,” Mildred relates. gke pVf,d imtil dm fall of 1947 Gkius, and she reinemhors whip-.“‘She smeared hot lard around n^y willi her uncle and aunt the pmgs for uuge:.(mg to be good in throat and wrapped it with a cloth HeiLs. in Groat ‘Hf,n(p learning the two weens hence Christ 11ms. i0 I looked awfully Gok. and i^ept-KnuJish oniv slowly because they ittc watched the syru(, mmmig 1 healed piece of roof slate on my«Spoke German so” fluently. Herand ci'M iv.: nllmg v.mn her .'iomai.li. 'education began when she wentmuthcr’o bakuigs ui pfeik-r mmsse The soldiers saw she wan face lo work iR Su Ho,0 hospital's diet and lobiuichen and sprengerle — and sniffed the lard and hunted kitmienthe good lt;Icnuaa holiday cookies, elsewhere. ‘•.Even if you're not • [ tkink j sometimes got theLater, she walked in the fields, -sick, that hot lard will do U.” mixed up,” she'admits. ”1bciiind Uie h.sier, picking up the Mildred finally was taken from h0pe no one ••rows of potatoes. And she walked her mother and hustled to a work jcur.se friends at the mospital m the forest alter berries with camp, ordered to wash Hhj n.ugh: m-gC(( her to go to high school, her brother Hurst who was four fhinnol .shirts a day in a wooden she wa.s admittedly'fright-years younger. tub and do it with a small piece oneii She hult;{ heCome acquaintedShe knew vaguely she couldn't of soap. “When they discovered wilh Mli and Mrs. Carl Dobnnski go bcyound eight guides of school;dirt, they slapped you in the who live near Uuraine. arrangedb.-cnuse her father was not a Nazi face with the wet shirts.” lo Uve with them and enrolled inpai tv member. But she docs not Lorraine rural high school in therecall any of the horror of Hiller In three days her hands were ; fap 0jprepaimg for the blood baih *-■ bleeding raw. She refused to .c.'.tcpt tor one. faint ni.-mnry. «.irk. : A)|.s DobrinskI was a to,.mer.I IMM out my lei,ids lo tin Knfrlfch tmcher and helped Mil-“Some ,1-uish podpl,. mu the soldlrr. He. had »,„■ „f those ,|rc(1 wjlh ,1C[. bnmeu.ork. when.Sion- when, «o traded. Horst Rims with the big drum for huh sho Rraduale(l with lhe clas3 ofand I would bo half frown when ; I'1!- 1 was ct.vIiir and I said |.3l_ Enplish was hor {avol.lle sub.ue'd ro there in the sleigh alt- 'I know yon will shot me, hut jct,t an(t she was getting As ander groceries. The storela*eper’s I won’t wash anymore.’ An of. ,gsHifo a I wavs had hot buns for fleer looked at my hands and j 'she foulld at Loa%ine. a coin-us, with Honey on them. I re- ! alter that t worked in I h a ‘^unity as German as ltllarh, butmember one(! wo went and the. ' a ni;h, quiet farm community, farstnro was dark and the windows , “Vuu fake Ihosq 'haneos. Von removef| (vm the lroublcs of thewere broken. My father came don't care anymore. p«jfe 0f Hndach. She spoke at abaek to the sleigh and said the The. women slept m banaeks, on (,hui,.h vounK peoplps meeting onestorekeeper and his wife wero ;straw oovere.l bunks, younger girls Weh, telline the storv of her trav-
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, May 03, 1953
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