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Philomena Zoeschg

How Mama misses the child
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
St. Nikolaus
date of recording:
2008-06-16
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1937
transcription:
Yes, one died at 20 months of pneumonia and pleurisy. Since the mother has once again been pregnant. And have the child we have - we can not leave home because the doctor has said that he must treat it every day. And then it came to the next village. And there is, thank God, the neighbor of the farmer just the woman - if someone was sick, which was so good to people. Then with the child after (Waldburg) to the doctor and also has outside in a room in the house - they lived with the child because the mother has not gone by so many children and was pregnant. Then the child is unfortunately dead. That was a pretty child. And the mom has been so fond. And the mother has suffered incredibly. Years! But years! She is dead until the mother herself, she has had a small pair of shoes of the child and a dress under her bed, under her cushion until she herself died. Yes. She has suffered incredibly, terribly. And then the sister who was just born then - the child who died, Ruth was called - and the mom has again named Ruth. And they should not have, perhaps, because they will actually always the other Ruth had in mind. Always the other Ruth. And this is Ruth then frankly somewhat been neglected.