Hi Fred, Lived a lot like that as a kid too. My children can't comprehend
that life much less my grand children. Our moms were inventive when it came
to food weren't they?
Rita, Ontario, Canada
Hi Fred, Lived a lot like that as a kid too. My children can't
comprehend that life much less my grand children. Our moms were
inventive when it came to food weren't they? Rita, Ontario, Canada
Yes and often very frustrated. One time my mother and an aunt were gone for three
days to go hamstern. They came back full of joy as both had been lugging a big
sack of flour back home. It turned out that they were cheated and there was only a
little flour on top. The rest was some kind of white powder. They both sat there and
cried and we kids tried to comfort them.
Early on I got Hungertyphus as we called it. Too weak to walk my mother carried me
from one place to another looking for help and a doctor. I was literally dying. She
finally found a Russian military doctor who treated me and according to my mother
gave me a transfusion of his own blood. For some reason I was destined to survive
a whole bunch of situations were the grim reaper was staring me in the face. If it
hadn't been for my mom though, all bets would have been off.
The mothers, the females who were not at the front were just as brave as their
husbands if not braver. What they went through and what individual German
soldiers did to try to help and protect them and their children is not really
describable. To me they were all heroes and I'm not ashamed to say so.
Fred
26 Warren St.
Beverly, NJ 08010
FredRump@earthlink.net
609-386-6846