My Mom went to a catholic school in Marienfeld which today is called Tia Mare in Romania. She always said that the nuns who taught there were very mean. They apparently had no problem hitting the kids. After they fled to Austria from the Russians she went to school there. My Mom was a gifted painter. Apparently her grandmother painted the interior scenes of churches and commissioned paintings. My Mom was supposed to go to art school in Vienna. Anyways, she said that one day she and her twin sister was sitting in class and the principal came in and in front of everyone told them that they had to leave as they did not have the money to pay the school. This left a scar on her for her entire life. She only went to grade six but she was a very smart woman. She taught herself English and then Dutch. Never did she ask me to help her fill out any government forms or anything else. 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Josef Kartje and Elisabeth Pink of Seultour (Fran) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:12:11 -0400 > From: DVHH-L Administrator <[email protected]> > To: DVHH Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: [DVHH] Life in Childhood - School, Play, Friends, Chores ... > Message-ID: > <[email protected]om> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello everyone, > > Conversation on the list has been kind of slow lately. Guess everyone is > busy enjoying summer! > > Was just thinking about the kids going back to school and wondering about > school back in the old country. My mom went to school from the ages of > 7-12, for five grades. She repeated grade 3 because she was very sick that > year and missed a lot of school. It was a one-room schoolhouse. She > really liked watching Little House on the Prairie. The school and life > reminded her of home. At some point it was divided into 2 rooms, for older > and younger kids. > Yes, there was someone who stuck her pigtails in the inkwell! They had > slates to do their work. One of her "friends" used to change her answers > to incorrect ones so my mom would get in trouble. > My uncle has an incredible knowledge of European history. He told me that > because there was not a lot of books available they had to really learn and > remember what they had been told, which is why he still remembers all this. > > She learned Serbian, both in Latin and Cyrillic letters and German in both > Latin and Gothic. She also spoke a smattering of other languages because > of going to two different markets each week to sell farm produce. She > really loved working at the markets. > She lived in Hrastovac in western Slavonia, a town of about 700-800 > residents. She always felt under-educated here in Canada because she only > went to 5 grades, but I think she was quite intelligent and knew as much as > people who went through the whole elementary and secondary school systems. > Maybe not the calculus and trigonometry, but the languages, everyday > mathematics, history and geography and she certainly knew a lot of growing > crops and raising farm animals and how to fix just about anything. Very > practical life skills! > > Would anyone like to share stories about school life, especially those of > you who went to school there? When did school start? What months did it > run? Did you get let out at certain times to help in the fields? What were > your teachers like? Where did they come from? How were things different > in smaller towns and larger towns and cities. > > Feel free to share any other stories about childhood life during the good > times. > > Darlene > > > ----------------------------------------------- > Darlene Dimitrie > DVHH-L Email List Administrator > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 20:53:50 -0400 > From: Fran <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [DVHH] Josef Kartje and Elisabeth Pink of Seultour > Message-ID: > <[email protected]d.protection.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Does anyone have a Seultour Familienbuch or any other access to find the parents of > Josef Kartje, born about 1834 in Seultour and married about 1861 to Elisabeth Pink *16.09.1842 of Charleville. > > Thank you > > Fran Matkovich > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > ------------------------------ > > End of DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES Digest, Vol 10, Issue 163 > *******************************************************