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0 • atlract,ve lne's on 0,(5 wash and long walk to Bcrliand honey again.”hi the summer of ia3» the high- bottom. 0ne oI tho listeners was Leonway past the. Sehmdlei farm, That,” explains the young J;uuen, whose • parents, Mr. and winch led to Poland was fogged bride, was so when the soldiers Mrs. Wilbert Jansen arc leadingwith .soldiers and Mild r e d came look mg tor girls at night,! fiirmers in the community. wratched them from the potato; they would see the old owmcn.”j He was the bashful type,” Mil-field, The government ordered Mildred was in the work elirei, Kavs with that age-old wont-farmers to turn over all surplus three weeks when the war ended „„•« smile, but he had a sister production to the state. and the joyous Russians, hurrying in S(.hool With me, and that■’but it whs easy to fool them.*’ to Berlin, turned their captives helped.'*Ill,,* 1«. .i I ti•l . ! XAfter graduation, she went toMildred .says .slyly. WcM butcher hmse. When Mildred found heia rail in the dark and keep bark mother. Frau Schindler washed: work for' Ed Staeber in the Lor-some milk and eggs.” the bee out of her hair with hot'^ Itlte bank. She is a mvrndtcbviVA Schindler didn't go to wav, vinegar. of cvcryone in the litUe town: Harbin was put in charge of a When they reached home. Mil-:ry Di«gs the postmaster and Harry giuujj of iarins 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,all(i Roy Whiteman at the Lorrainea i* t ench 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-;in Harry Folks' domino parlor and never came back from Stalingrad, sian soldiers had ripped up the!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 Uadach,-stones. By that narrow a margin; eery.‘ Mostly, says Mildred, “we did* was Mildred Schindler able to; “1’mi bet she’s a good girl.T n’t know there was a war. prove she was an American and!says Mrs. Teresa Dobrinski whomj Sar came in the spring of;come back to Kansas. {Mildred lived with after she eame1945 when the Russians and Amer-j Even so, the journey wasn’tito town to work in the bank. Mrs.!leans 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. ;tatoes planted when a new enemyThe Germans met them there; came. Russia had given BrandenDobrinski herself came from Germany, 50 years ago.Last summer Mildred got an unexpected letter from Berlin. Herin HMer’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'hold the eastern front. The battlejdievs came as the Germans and see-sawed across the Schindler; Russians before them, and or* farm. Shells tore holes in the slatejderod the Schindlers out. roof and shattered the windows! We had only a few minutes toland then Russian troops moved!get ready. My mother was sick! notes for her wedding presents,i frh land when I told the soldier we she was busy last week filling outjSchindler plodded through h 1 sj couldn't move her, he offered to complicated government forms.; chores, a Russian tommygun al-jshoot her. She hopes they will be here byways at his hack. The Peoples’;; Escorted to Frankfurt on the new j August.army dumped all Frau Schindler's; German border, the Schindlers I never want to leave here, molasses on her kitchen floor and! were turned loose. They walked; Mildred says. Unless the Rus-added the innards of a feather;the 60-odd miles to Berlin, eat-jsians come. Then, they won’t find.V A a — m a i.. 1 . i « # f l I »bed — ust for the hell of it.When they retreated, the Russians herded the population of Raing raw potatoes and grass along the way.VDon't complain about spinach,me here.Mildred does not agree it is im possible for the Russians to come
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, May 03, 1953
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