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Post by rdywenur on Aug 8, 2007 11:14:43 GMT -7
If anyone is interested I just took some shots of a trunk in storage that was given to us to use for our belongings coming to America. Then I remembered also a brush I have. It appears to me to be a clothes brush. The trunk is the same trunk a gentleman had also that was born in Wildflecken Germany as I was. These fotos are for him as he requested to put them on his blog. (Dr. John Z. Guzlowski,Professor Emeritus,Eastern Illinois University) It appears we have somethings in common. He said he did not keep his after his mother died. I think I will keep mine even if I do nothing with it. I think I would like to keep it just as is. A piece of history.
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Post by leslie on Aug 8, 2007 11:40:26 GMT -7
Chris (Rdy..) You hang on to everything - they are obviously special pieces of history. Leslie
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Post by hollister on Aug 8, 2007 12:28:26 GMT -7
Chris - these are fantastic! I hope you will give us some explanations as you have time. Now, I can not remember - where were you born?
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 8, 2007 13:00:48 GMT -7
Holly I am a little Polish Kraut...I have plenty of cabbage in me ;D I was born in Wildflecken Germany. Home to Elvis also for a short time and to Shaquel O'Neil (hope I didn't massacre his first name)
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Post by leslie on Aug 8, 2007 13:37:33 GMT -7
Chris (Holli)
She isn't just a Polish Kraut, she is an ex-concentration camp internee - I have never dared ask her why they put her in there!!!
Leslie
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 8, 2007 14:37:36 GMT -7
No Leslie it was a displaced persons camp. I am still wandering around looking for a home. Want to adopt me. I am house broken also. ;D but I don't do windows.
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Post by bescheid on Aug 8, 2007 14:47:56 GMT -7
The trunk in self is a part of your life and with it, a remembrance of another time. It is good you were to find it before it was destroyed by circumstances.
Charles
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 10, 2007 11:56:02 GMT -7
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jeanne
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Post by jeanne on Aug 10, 2007 17:57:41 GMT -7
rdywenur,
I loved your pictures! While the trunk and brush are interesting, I was more taken with the pictures of the people! I love to see pictures like these.
One question.... Why does it say "Hillary Rodham Clinton" under the picture of mom in the newspaper? You've really got my curiosity up. Hope I didn't miss an explanation somewhere else.
Jeanne
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Post by Jaga on Aug 10, 2007 19:00:14 GMT -7
Chris,
beautiful pictures. I also tend to be more interested in people than in things. I loved the pictures from your Christmas in 40-es!
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 10, 2007 19:00:49 GMT -7
Jeanne I think if the foto is expanded to the largest size the captions are shown. Otherwise they are just a foto.
To answer your question that is a newspaper foto taken of my mom when she was studying for her citizenship back in 1956. A few years ago Hillary was coming here to town to where my mom lived. I told my mom to make sure she takes the clipping and have her have Hillary sign it as a momento and she did. So now it might soon become the signature of a President. What a journey that little clipping has taken so far....nie. Something to pass down in our family.
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 10, 2007 19:03:13 GMT -7
Jeanne and Jaga,
Hold on and I'll pull 2 more off my disk and upload that will knock your socks off. ;D
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Post by jeanne on Aug 11, 2007 3:53:41 GMT -7
To answer your question that is a newspaper foto taken of my mom when she was studying for her citizenship back in 1956. A few years ago Hillary was coming here to town to where my mom lived. I told my mom to make sure she takes the clipping and have her have Hillary sign it as a momento and she did. So now it might soon become the signature of a President. What a journey that little clipping has taken so far....nie. Something to pass down in our family. Rdywenur, Yes...interesting story. Thanks, this is the stuff I love hearing about! Jeanne
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Post by kaima on Aug 11, 2007 7:08:47 GMT -7
Rdy,
There are web sites where people are trying to assemble the history fo the various DP camps. You should look them up if you have any of your photos or stories you want to share with others and preserve. Most of the history is lost.
I used to live near Aschaffenburg. This was a strong nazi center during the war, a DP camp for (I believe) Yugoslavs after the war, and then a large center for American tank forces into the 90's. I stopped there a few years ago and visited the Army library on base and it turned out they had kept no history of the DP days, so I was able to offer nothing to the person & web site looking for information.
Now to look over the postings you made... Kai
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 11, 2007 7:48:50 GMT -7
Kai, You might wish to check out this website if you haven't already. www.dp-camp-wildflecken.de/There are many links there to lead to several camps listed . Heinz (webmaster) will be posting some of the fotos to this site I have sent him recently. I also just bought on Albiris an out of print book called the Wild Place written by Kathryn Hulme about this camp. There also is a copy of the book on line . Here is the link to it thewildplace.netfirms.com/
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