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Maria, Charlotte Kerer
Still a child but already a housemaid
video length:
01:30
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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1942
transcription:
I was a maid. You can say that, yes. As of age10 in any case. I was a maid. - Until the age of 10 I had to do the work, that a child can do: carry wood, stack wood, tend cows, chop beets, muck out the stable - and everything that was to be done on a farm. At 10 - I had to work in the fields, like everyone else. Like a maid, yes, like a maid. I didn`t know anything else. And I also - I was not to talk back - no talking back. Anywhere. I couldn`t do anything, except what I was told to do, that's what I had to do. I didn`t dare to say: "No, I won't ...do that." - I'd get cuffed on the ear. Yes. But that surely didn`t hurt. These days - when I think back - I think, maybe there were advantages too. You had to - you had to be quiet, you had to - and you also learned a lot. When I went to Switzerland, there was never any talking back. Never ... not a single time. Although I worked a very, very much. Yes.