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You Are An American”*Opens Up A New WorldFaded, 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 andsurprised.“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.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 GoryMILDRED SCHINDLER . . . Here to stay , . •1 r • t 1
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, May 03, 1953
Page 15
Full Page
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