Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is Martha, a neighbor of wife, Margie's dad. We are visiting for a few weeks. http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250534-1/tea+party-0260.jpg We often have tea parties where we sit around, have treats and tea and talk about lots of things. She is interesting. http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250532-1/tea+party-0257.jpg http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250529-1/tea+party-0272.jpg She and her husband, who died a few years ago, are from Germany and Poland, respectively. They both lived there through WWII and made it to this country after the war. They had interesting stories about what life was like. We can hardly imagine the conditions they had to endure. She lived in what became East Germany, and lived under Russian rule towards the last part of the war, which she describes as being infinitely worse that the Germans. Of course, she was German, but the conditions were bad. This time I asked how she was able to get out and she said the boarder was not quite sealed at that time, but she did have to go through a mine field to get across the border and then make it to the US. She had to leave her daughter behind with her mother because she and her husband could not afford to take her at that time. Fascinating stuff. http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250536-1/tea+party-0267.jpg Comments and criticism welcome Aram