Lotte, My parents were also at Haid (by Ansfeldon) from 47-51 before they came here to the US. I have a book filled with pictures that my cousin sent me. Have you seen it? Eve On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Jody McKim Pharr < jodymckimpharr@comcast.net> wrote: > Dear Lotte, > > Thank you for sharing some of the details of your life. I'd like to point > you to the DVHH "Displaced Persons Camps" section, whereby you could submit > your family's story of being in Haid and any photos they may have taken > while there. > SEE: http://www.dvhh.org/history/ds_camps/index.htm > > Jody McKim Pharr > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: donauschwaben-villages-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:donauschwaben-villages-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lotte > Devlin > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 4:17 PM > To: monicaellis621@aol.com; terryb@tcn.net; > donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DVHH] Strudel > > > I also have a strange (to me) story. We immigrated when I was 2 from an > Austrian DP camp in Haid. Growing up there was a big DS community in > Philadelphia, so we went to German school and German singing school on > Saturdays, and "Tanzgruppe" on Tuesdays. > So I learned all the old German folk songs. Though my mother was also a > Donauschwaebin, her dialect was more Austrian than Schwowisch, so we spoke > her dialect of German at home. I could understand Schwowisch, but speak it. > > > The summer between my sophomore and junior year in college I spent the > summer studying German in Iserlohn Germany at the Goetheinstitut. In my > class, there were "Volksdeutsche" from Russia, Poland, Argentina, > Czechoslovakia, etc. One night we had a cookout and we started singing > these old songs, which all the Volksdeutsche knew perfectly. My German > teacher (a "German" German) asked me where I learned all of these songs, > and > so perfectly. I proudly said that I'd learned them in singing school. He > said, "you know, no one sings these songs in Germany any more today. You > need to be careful where you sing them!" I was crushed! > > But I still sing them whenever I clean house, as we did at home growing up. > My children even know some of them. I believe that the gift of heritage is > a gift we owe our offspring! > > Lotte > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia