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Show N H RP BEC: ANN: BEC: ANN: BEC: ANN: So there were German soldiers all around? All over yeah. Were you allowed to go outside of your flat? Oh, yeah. We were pretty well free. Life went on. So it was normal, kind of? T 10 2001 It was, sort of, yeah, sort of. The first few years, it was not as bad, but later on, the more the war went on, the worse it got. Especially the last year, the last year was really bad. You know, they started to put us on rations and stuff like that and once you go on the rations, if you have money-it's like everywhere else in the world-if you have money, you can buy things on the black market. But we didn't have money and so we had to rely on the rations. And it was pretty tough. And my brother is two years older than I am and so he was just at that age, you know, teenage boys, how hungry they get all the time. BEC: Yeah. ANN: And when it got to be really bad, my sister-my youngest sister was born in December of '44-and that's when the real bad was going on. And my dad had been taken away by the Germans to Germany 'cause, see, all their men-folk was in the war. And they didn't have anybody to run their factories in Germany. And so they raided all our men. And it was funny. My grandmother had a son that was still at home, not married yet. And he was living with her, but he decided to come over to our house because he thought his area was being picked off. And he thought maybe he'd get away by coming to our house. Well, he got picked up at our house. And my mother was quite heavy with my younger sister and somehow she tried to ask to keep my dad home 9 |
