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Small Bridge to Freedom By Gertrude Amrhein, as told to Dagmar |
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Written by John Thornton
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
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In February 1946, we got married in the Russian zone of Germany. Like any other young married couple, we did not bother about the world. We had each other and we were happy, but soon enough we found out it takes more than love to live.
Our ration cards promised each person about three slices of bread a day, fifty grams ( one and a half ounces ) of meat a week and very little fat. Many times we got fish or cottage cheese as a substitute for the meat. It was not enough to live on but a little too much to die on.
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GMy family when I was a girl, I'm on the right.
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Most of the time I had to go into the country to get some more food for us from the farmers. There was nothing to buy, and the money wasn’t good, so we exchanged bed sheets, clothing, household goods or the like. This was a pretty fair deal.
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Re:Small Bridge to Freedom By Gertrude Amrhein, as
May 07 2008 01:45:03
I'm glad you like it. A few weeks ago at Bob Heath's birthday party Gertrude pulled me aside to say she had gotten a call from a friend in Ireland complementing her on the article. She hadn't known it was online - Dagmar swears she told her. Anyway, I was able to fire-up Bob's computer and show her. She was so excited to see the pictures of her family and glad people were getting to hear her story.
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