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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

2008-08-20

Sylvia Manning ? Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1914

After a few months my father found a flat in Innsbruck. Now the question was: How do we get to all our possessions? By coincidence, 14 days before our provisional moving date to Innsbruck, the Austrians and the Germans had re-conquered Jaroslaw. My father went to the head of the military command of Tyrol and asked him "How do I get to my possessions? I don’t have a single piece of furniture, I’ve got nothing to move, I’d like to get to my things." To which he replied: "You’re not really thinking, that now, after 14 days you can run a transport from Jaroslaw to Innsbruck - that’s completely impossible. Forget about that and think about another solution.’ Angrily, my father wanted to return to his office. Then right when he was leaving a sergeant accountant came up to him and said "Sir, Major or cavalry captain, whatever his title was then. "I overheard your conversation and luckily, I have a business friend in Jaroslaw - named Veilchenblüh. If I write to Veilchenblüh, with a request, then he will help. All you have to do is to find someone, who’ll go to Jaroslaw and say: "I want this, I want that - and this is here and that is there." My father's military batman, Stefan ? a postman in civilian life. Stefan went to Jaroslaw and got the order, to do whatever was possible. Despite all our misgivings, four, five weeks later, the accounting sergeant came and said: "I am working on the transport bills, and your freight is at the central train station. I have to note, however, that it is not military freight, and you have to pay the incurred costs.’ Well, my father paid the cost, received the bill of transport and we moved into our empty flat in Brunecker Strasse, back then Bahnstrasse. And everything went quite well again.