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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Lienz

2008-08-25

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D ´Incecco

1942

Why do you think your parents chose you to be the one who? Because I stayed everywhere. The others always came back home again. They didnt stay with the farmers. One cried and another one said: "No, I`m not staying" and "Mama, let me stay home", and I just stayed. I worked at the farmers'. I never - never went back. Well, till I said: "Now I`ve had enough, now I also want to ...", and so - I was with three, four farmers and then - like I said, I went to Lienz and started ... started work. At what age were you first sent to a farmer? I was five, six years old. At three ... I went to Maria Luggau, where my mother was from, and stayed there till I was five. Then I went back home again. Next, I was sent to a farmer. From age five to nine, I was at this farmer`s and at that farmer's, that's what it was like, there were fleas and children had lice in their hair ... Once ... they rubbed petroleum or something - onto my head and then cleaned me again - and that worked. I was 14 years old, then I - spent 4, 5 years at the next farmer's. When I was 14, I left the farmers. Yes.