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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Lienz

2008-05-06

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1935

I have good memories of my father. .. He worked with the railroad company and he had a bike. He always went to work on that bike. On the back of it there was a carrier, like there used to be. He picked up every piece of wood, every single piece, that he found lying on the ground on his way and put it on the carrier at the back. He brought it all home, every single piece. And when he got home - there was no proper food on the table. Then we bought a tin of sardines, I remember that well, a tin of sardines, a longish one. Then all of us, three, four, five - whoever was home - walked around father and said: "Let us have a taste!" and he gave everybody some until the can was almost empty. And then he - the old ovens had a kind of bowl inside them, a bowl for water. So he poured water from the water bowl into a cup, added soup flavoring, and bread and water with soup flavouring was his supper, after work. I will never forget that. He was a very kind-hearted person, but he didn't grow old. .. as I said, we built the house together. We helped him as well as we could and he did everything else himself.