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Robert Roth.
07/23/30.
Born.
Here in Waldenhausen.
I didn’t move out, but I was always at home.
I was always at home, I never moved away.
Why should I move away, when home is there?
The parents then, the grandparents passed away, too, right?
So, then it was nothing anymore either.
That’s the blacksmith of Waldenhausen.
My father was a carpenter.
Five generations back, all carpenters.
Five generations.
And the mother, well, she kept house,
you know, and gardening.
Housekeeping, all that’s included in that.
And raised the children.
My mother, she got sick.
She passed away in 1936.
Now I don’t know, if she had …
Too many white blood cells, or red ones.
So, she died because of the blood cells.
Real quick.
1936. And in ’40 my father passed away.
And then, life was over. Then I had to work, just like the
Polish and Russian farm hands, who came at that time.
I’ve had to work just like them.
Get up at six, five o’clock, in summer yet out by five.
Milk two or three cows. Milk, right?
Hoeing potatoes or hoeing beet or turning hay or mowing.
Or getting fodder.
It was all, all gardening.
Nothing was given to me in my life. Nothing! Not a dreg!
Wasn’t even begrudged the black under my fingernail.
I had no good youth.
Now I’m already for 35 years …
Alone.
All on my own.
Have to take care of my health and everything, all by myself.
Since 30 years I’m yet retired now …
Now I’m 80 …
60 …
By the age of the 63 I got retired.
Work, work, work. There wasn’t anything else.
My whole life long.
Only working.
I didn’t get holidays, nothing.
Never.
When I got holidays, I’ve been busy at home again.
Only working, from day to day.
