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JUJfUJUiJ mu Wliv; Ul J-JVWll .mtu-tn.•f 'S ' ••*.MILDRED SCHINDLER . . . Here to stay , . *Their Ellsworth county farm will; £7 he Mildred’s first home of hcrj 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. duch 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 American with the dimpled chin, journeyed,'the horse, they found a crippled;2onGj j)Ut f}]e Americans turned between her birth and her wed-; one, when that was taken, theyithom hnrk m the Russians. Thov ding, from Central Kansas to Ger*. found an ox.many and Poland and back again:; *•( don’t know now far we went.” north of Berlin. Frau Schindler ami what sne saw and suffered;Mildred 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. She could happend only in this nnul /j seems a long way when you wrangled Mildred a permit to go century. .walk. The column thinned as the back to Berlin on the pretense theFrit:-: Schindler, who was Mil* soldiers pulled out the able bodied family winter clothing had been dred’s lather and who is now an(j the girls. At Trebow, left there with relatives. She told must likely dead, came from Ger- near the Polish border, they look Mildred not to come hack, many to his uncle Charles Herb’s jyr\\z Schindler. His family never Relatives got Mildred and her farm in Barton county m ltd. saw j^iu again. A relative who Great Bend birth certificate be-bive years later, his Anna joined survived, told of seeing h i ro fore American military govern-hun ami three years after t h a t dogged. merit authorities •— although theyMildred v.'ii-i bt-rn. .She v.v.s six *AVe'\e hast reports he died lirin’t know the certificate mademucks old when thev went backj — ’ ' — —^ieyjthem back to the Russians. They; ;were sent to a camp in Gustrow,;t .1 ijermany nvi-r tr. eV.Fi it.: I «► i» u“We’ve had reports he died — in Behind, m Moscow, in Siberia, ^1C!an American. They just\ viiidvt.o. m near H i*Mildied savsa Sul 11;,o ii. Mildred's a:e of the stoneHer husband gone, Frau Schinthought it might help. Mildred waited a ’rearm an:u si men. mi es... .Her conspired to save her oaughhouse with. American displaced persons camp.!i5 ,...... 7',' “It was wondeitul. We didn't haveshoe root, standing peaceiuHy m ■ , oUnb 10 Ji1* ,n xvor-K ...only keep our roomsthe fields of rye and potato*::-. 'll' 1 ^U' neat — and, oh! the. weiners antiShe 'lues not remember that m Salut'd a yds pretty braie f! 15 c e sautukraut’’’Hmse years her country was pro* owed her hfe to her unattractive- Qn jjie tonpng over, shepu.mg to tear Used to bus. uoss to the prowling young Russian soldiers. Frau Schindler didwasn’t afraid anymore. She sleptSilo learned about the Bellsnick* a good job.on the bottom bunk. The only Eng-“She put flpur on inv face solish she knew when she arrived,lo who comes early in December ^’-whs, “ves no an-'' e°,rs.and ia nmre important than .Santa Ed look pale.” Mildred relates. ^jle }jVf.{( imtp ;he fall of 1917 Gkius, and she remembers whip-.“She .smeared hot lard around rnv ^er uncle and aunt thef'H- to tie f;W-,| m tlimat uni wranpocl ft. with a cloth Hcvl#j in Great b’.cnd. learningthe two wvJ I If: o.e niroitiihis. to I look.-.! a iv iu) ic sick, ami kept Knslish onlv lloivly hs.-tpso theyhint Bao'hgjJ tin* synio h.uMf 'i_ lif.'i'fd pwee of toot fcto on my .sp,,j.:t. r.ennan lo' fluently. H er'0''fiv.- jiUuj:; v.oh too 'O'tn.ii.h. eilucation noyan when she went‘ Vik.nys oi pfeik-r neiisse The soWu-rs saw the Won face U) ,vo,.j. m gg Ho.,e hospital's dietand lobkuchen and spnmgerle •— and sniffed the lard and hunted kitcnenthe gn..,u lt;Jen nan holiday cookies. elsewhme. “Even n you’re not •[ j sniuelimes got theLater, she walked m the fields, -silt;*k. that hot laid will do it.” mixed up,” she'admits. “I» I l I 11 i * Ahr\y lt;
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, May 03, 1953
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