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Maria, Charlotte Kerer
My parents had a hard life
video length:
01:16
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Lienz
date of recording:
2008-05-06
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1925
transcription:
My grandparents on my father's side were farmers. Also on my mother's side. My mother is from Carinthia, from Maria Luggau. They also had a farm there. My mother came to Lienz from Luggau when she was 18 years old - to Tristach near Lienz. She met my father when she was 18 and when she was 19 she had her first child. That's how it was until - until my father had to go to war. He was in Norway during the war. He came home on leave twice. Afterwards the children were born in a row until - until it didn't work anymore. They both died at 53 years of age. My father built a house at home and we all helped. When we were in Switzerland he always said: "Don't you have some money, give us money, we need window frames - give us money, we have to finish building the house." And we gave him everything. That's the way it went. Yes.