This video is currently only available in German. Below you will find an English translation of the audio track.
“This is the Mirschikau lease owned by Prince von Trautmannsdorf, which my grandfather leased. My father and mother married in 1919. The house is currently being built for them and I was born here in 1921.
My sister was born here two years later and I still have a lot of memories.
A memory that you have as a small child is that my father always brought us grasshoppers from the field in matchboxes or that behind the house there were many strawberries that were better than those that I found somewhere else.
Across from the pond and behind the church was the only shop in town where the only Jews except us lived: the Steiner family.
My sister didn’t want to give up her tongue (pacifier) and was still sucking it when she was two years old and even older and someone suggested selling it to Max Steiner. And then I remember exactly how we looked out at the window, how she there went across the village and sold the thing and came back with a bag of chocolates. And after she finished it, she wanted her beloved tongue (pacifier) back. But it was just sold and was gone.”