Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is good that you talk to this lady and hear her stories before it is too late. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Aram Langhans wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >