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Maria, Charlotte Kerer
Years of bombing in Lienz
video length:
01:52
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Lienz
date of recording:
2008-08-25
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning ? Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1944
transcription:
During the war? Yes. I remember, at night - at night the siren went off... and I was at the farmer's up there, and the four men - they were drafted. They had to go, yes, to war. And only two came back - two... the others perished, yes. At the farmer`s. I can remember it well. The whole war years and all that ... all the flights ... in Lienz everything got bombed. Everything. In Lienz everything was destroyed. I went to town with the horses, and then there was an air raid alarm, and there they were - they flew over, the bombers and the horse ran off, I have no idea where to - and I went into a field of rye, into a big corn field, and next to me a farmer was lying... He was holding the stalks of grain over us both, saying: "Holy Mother of God, today they're right above us." So we lay in the corn field, and in Lienz everything got bombed. Yes. You could see it all. One plane crashed, then - came down - and the parachutes came down - and the plane went down in Lienz - in Gaimberg, he crashed. Then we got the parachute silk, from the parachutes. My mother made us shirts out of that, after the war. She made coats out of the military coats, we were equipped with that, with this stuff.