A beautiful story! I wish someone would make a movie about the Danube Swabians! Stories like yours could be made into a great movie. Can you imagine it? Margaret >From my iPad > On Apr 24, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Gaby Curtis-Hayward <gabyh@adam.com.au> wrote: > > I suddenly remembered a little story I would like to share. > My parents immigrated to Australia in 1949 (aged 28) . They lived in Woodside, the immigration centre in the beautiful Adelaide hills for many years and then bought a house in the western suburbs. > When my mum was in her 50's, she was sitting at a bus stop in the city. A woman approached and sat next to my mother. They both said hello to each other although they did not know one another. > The woman said to my mother that she looked very familiar. > They started to talk and quickly discovered that they were born and grew up in the same village in Yugoslavia. > How bizarre, that they lived through the war, were at different DP camps, different immigration centres and lived in different districts but managed to sit at the same bus stop, at exactly the same time and EVEN recognise each other. > Of course the friendship continued. > Gaby > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 24 Apr 2014, at 8:43 am, "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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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