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Today's #grandma recording: "You don't really like to speak about your wedding, right"? - What? - "You don't really like to speak about your wedding, right?." - What? - "You don't really like to speak about your wedding, right?." - "Was not that nice. Was not that nice."

Then she told me, that when they were in the church (she wasn't even sure anymore, which church it was), she saw the Kohleklau character https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlenklau and that she was so scared.

#genealogy #trauma

In today's belated #grandma recording from my first visit in the nursery home, she told me some of the probably most frequently shared stories, like her uncle making a path for her in the snow, so she could get easier to school, and her grandma begging her to take over the farm on her deathbed, which she did in that winter, where then the water froze and she was all alone. It was weird, that there were passages in which she almost spoke Hochdeutsch, as opposed to our usual Alemannic #dialect.

We somehow ended up at an acquaintance of her, who used to beat his child quite brutally, and who had a second wife, who would call him a*hole in public. She said, he was Swabian. I couldn't help myself but to tell her a joke: What does a Swabian say, when he dies? - "Oh, it costs my life" (Swabians in German jokes are often referred to as greedy, which is also attributed to Scots).

Grandma laughed about it a bit. That's how she was: Even in the nursery home, having an oxygen tube under her nose, while I wore an FFP2 mask, she was able to laugh.

#genealogy #familyhistory

Nothing Beats Grandma’s Cooking
Write about a meal you’ll never forget. Some meals stay with you forever. Not because they were expensive or served on a plate the size of a manhole cover with three microscopic bites in the middle. They stay with you because they remind you of someone you loved. For me, it’s my Poli
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