Post by Jaga on Dec 8, 2007 20:13:26 GMT -7
recently I am trying to convince my father to tell me about his childhood years. I am making lots of notes for teh future generations about a life in Poland 60 years ago 
I also asked my dad what they were eating during the war. He spent the majority of the war time as a boy in the rich farm next to Warsaw and Minsk Mazowiecki, next to a small town called Siennica. They had fish ponds, cows, fields etc, so they were not hungry there. But for the first 2.5 years of the war - until 1942 they lived in Zaglebie - it was a Polish enclave between the General Gourernor and Silesia. Since this region was very industrial, but it did not have villages where one could buy a food, it was really difficult to find a food and the ratios for Poles were small. My father remembers that they were eating mainly:
bread with margarine and a jelly from red beets. Instead of a regular coffee or tee they were picking up acorns from the oak trees to prepare a coffee! My father as a boy was also picking mushrooms in the parks around, which they ate later.
My grandmother (father's mother) died when he was 12 years old, in 1942 on Tuberculosis. She probably could live longer, but the malnutrition speed up it.
If any of you have any memories of what your family members were eating during the war, please share with us
I also asked my dad what they were eating during the war. He spent the majority of the war time as a boy in the rich farm next to Warsaw and Minsk Mazowiecki, next to a small town called Siennica. They had fish ponds, cows, fields etc, so they were not hungry there. But for the first 2.5 years of the war - until 1942 they lived in Zaglebie - it was a Polish enclave between the General Gourernor and Silesia. Since this region was very industrial, but it did not have villages where one could buy a food, it was really difficult to find a food and the ratios for Poles were small. My father remembers that they were eating mainly:
bread with margarine and a jelly from red beets. Instead of a regular coffee or tee they were picking up acorns from the oak trees to prepare a coffee! My father as a boy was also picking mushrooms in the parks around, which they ate later.
My grandmother (father's mother) died when he was 12 years old, in 1942 on Tuberculosis. She probably could live longer, but the malnutrition speed up it.
If any of you have any memories of what your family members were eating during the war, please share with us
) during WWII, but from my contacts with people who lived during that time in Occupied Europe, acorn coffee was the norm as real coffee was retained by the occupying Nazis. I would think that boiling acorns in water would negate any toxic substances - if there had been poisonous effects, I should imagine they would have been widespread and I have read no reports whatsoever of this type of event. What I have been told by the people who drank it, is that it tasted awful!!!!