I was usually alone in the house. If a stranger came, for example a policeman on patrol, I would invite him in and prepare food for him myself. Ham, coffee, omelettes and even a roast chicken. Mr Guhs and his wife treated me as if I were their son. I was always very keen to […]Read Post ›
For those of you who have been following my grandfather’s early life, today’s extract is slightly happier. Here he is not yet 6 years old. Schnellersruhe was a Czech colony, so I learned Czech and gradually forgot my German. It was situated in a mainly Romanian area and so I learnt some Romanian and Hungarian.Opposite […]Read Post ›
This the next part of my Grandfather’s memoir. From what he writes below he must have written it just before the beginning of the Second World War. He seems to have had lots of official documents and papers which he actually numbers within his text, but al lthe attachments as far as I know have […]Read Post ›
This is the next stage of my grandfather’s life. He is not yet four, but has suffered more than most people in a lifetime. He bases his stories on documents which he had. Unfortunately they are lost. On the 6th October 1879 Martin the woodman , on behalf of my father, tried to reach an […]Read Post ›
Parents’ ‘marriage. Gustaw Wisoky Autobiography ******* My mother is the daughter of a clerk in the Cozla mine. My mother and my father only had a civil wedding ( a Hungarian one) the reason that a church wedding did not take place after the civil one , despite the Weizenried priest having friendly relations with […]Read Post ›
Many years ago my father showed me a few pages of his father’s autobiography, which he had translated into Polish. As a child I was not particularly interested – I could not read Polish well enough, and in any case my father had already told me the most interesting snippets. But then my father died […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 