Ditchen's Story by Koehn Edith
Author:Koehn, Edith [Koehn, Edith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2013-06-08T16:00:00+00:00
July 27, 1948 Our Wedding Day
Tante Luzie, Mutti, Papa, Tante Hete, and Onkel Eugen
My First Child
It was harvest time and people waved from the fields. Now to our so fresh and nicely furnished room, for our dinner. Norbert’s donated rabbit was so delicious. Then there was a knock on the door, again and again. Farmers sent their children with a couple of eggs, some bacon. A piece of sausage, fruit and vegetables. Hans’s boss sent an iron. I just cried and cried. How nice people could be. I now realize I never properly thanked them. I did not know how. Hope the Lord did it.
It was sure not all easy street for the people that always lived there. The invasion and the occupation were easy on them because they were reimbursed for any loss by the invading troops. But when the refugees came, they lost the privacy of their homes. If they had an extra room, they had to prepare it somewhat for a refugee family. How must it feel to know there are starving people in the next room? They did not have all that much themselves.
Then the people from the city would come and beg. How tough they had to make themselves. I am glad we were on the other side. One example was Anna. She was Hans’s cousin. Hans and his father lived there. Her husband was drafted in the beginning of the war and ended up as a prisoner of war in England. She was left with two little children, a very bitter father and a mother who had Alzheimer disease. She had to run the farm and deal with the beggars. So she got hard. I was so intimidated by her. It took many years before we became good friends.
Hans was so loving, gentle and understanding with me. I loved him more for it. He also allowed that I still share my income with my parents. Norbert enrolled in business school. Norbert had a bike, but it was fifteen kilometers away. Hans built a little motor for him that would attach to the bike and drive it. He also built a radio for me to use. I sure enjoyed that, when I sat with my needlework.
He also put in an electric meter and more electric lines in our room. Our landlady was an unsatisfied lady. One day she brought an electrician in. “Their meter goes over my meter, and the radio is on almost all day. They pay me so little.” The electrician said, “This will take me a little while to check it all out. I see you later in your kitchen.” Reluctantly Mrs. Spiecker left. Then the man said, “Are you Hans Koehn’s wife? I am his cousin Herman. I know that Hans does only good and honest work, but I have to check it out.” Hans had many relatives in that area. Since his mother’s death, he had spent every summer there. That was often very disconcerting for me.
Very soon we found out that we were expecting our first child.
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