I found this yesterday. It brought back memories of my cousin Gustaw who died a few weeks ago in Poland. I met him for the first time when I was eleven, in 1965, in Częstochowa, Poland. My father had taken me by car and generally the trip was quite gruelling for me, partly because everyone […]Read Post ›
It’s been a while since I reproduced any of my grandfather’s memoir. You might want to read parts 1 to 6 again. Here my grandfather has language problems. The area he has been living in has changed governments and states several times. He is still very young, and is not used to meeting new people, […]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 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 ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 