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Maria, Charlotte Kerer
Girls didn't learn a trade
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01:53
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Ruth Deutschmann
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Benjamin Epp
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Lienz
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2008-05-06
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Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
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Nicole D´Incecco
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1944
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...I was the one who had to go to the farmers most often and... was always gone. One of my sisters was able to learn to sew. She learned to be a seamstress. But I didn't learn anything. As I said, I always was on a farm, tending the cows... Until I was 14 I was on a farm. Then I was sent to town for a bit. And I was able to earn some money for myself and could buy a bicycle so I didn't have to walk everywhere. And then... I never really went home again. I was always away. Only for short transitional periods, when I was home for a month or a fortnight maybe. Then I said: "I'm leaving again and will do my thing, then I'll learn something new and will see how that works and so on" - I got along quite well. One brother learned to be a smith... he was an artistic smith. Another was a painter, one was a mason and the girls didn't learn a trade. None of them. Only one learned to sew, yes. It's amazing how independent and purposeful you were! Yes, I have to say so myself. Our mother always told us: "Go out into the world, then you will learn what you need in life." So we all went, when we were old enough, we all went away to earn a little bit somewhere, we all went away. All of us, except for the youngest who stayed at home until the end, until my parents were no longer.