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Maria, Charlotte Kerer

Fight for every piece of bread
video length:
01:26
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
event
[1946-02-05] Food ration Further reduction of Lebensmittelrationauf 800-900 calories per day. A little later running the utility of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to.
place of recording
$child2[$rel_i18n_id][0]
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1945
transcription:
Yes. ... you got food stamps. Oh my God, the kids, they ate everything up right away. Then you went to have a look if anything was left over at the farmer's. Or one of them went to help the farmers harvest potatoes, then he brought a few home, and another was tending cows, and got a loaf of bread from a farmer. Or you got a few eggs or some Plentnmehl, this cornmeal for Sterz, you had to beg around. You really went begging, so that ... you'd get something. But you were never full. You never could eat till you were full. We never knew that feeling. Then - when nothing was left, that was that. Finished. And when I got something, from a farmer or when I got hold of something or ... when I thought, my God, that would be nice, then I carried it home straight away, and gave it to someone else again. You had to do it like that. At the farmer's there was no hardship really. They didn't have a lot of sugar nor a lot of coffee, but the rest was there. There was milk, there was butter, meat - they slaughtered - and there was bread and so there was everything... It really was ... much better then at home.