Today, I completed transcribing the second half of the #grandma recording, I had started last week and while at it, I managed to complete the remaining two recordings from that 10th of October 2021 as well. There was another round of picking on poor aunt Sophie #Steurenthaler who cried for months about losing her husband to the war. Grandma was still upset on her, when Sophie passed away some 35 years later, she wouldn't even visit her corpse.

In the next recording, I asked her about her view on the events started by her uncle Joseph #Steurenthaler, that ultimately led to the murderer of #Polish forced laborer Stefan Kozłowski in 1941 (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kozłowski-397)

#genealogy #ww2 #Zwangsarbeiter #ZwangsarbeiterInnen

Today's #grandma recording from October 2021 I couldn't transcribe in one round. I is 28:44 long and I had to stop after 20 minutes and over 160 bulleted lines of notes.

It mainly revolved around the mandatory social year, grandma did at her aunt Sophie #Steurenthaler ( https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-54 ), who lost her husband to the war in that time. She was crying all day for months, which made grandma furious. She promised herself, that she would never be like this. And she said, she wasn't, when her own husband passed away about 20 years later.

After she left from Sophie, since that one didn't have work for her anymore, she managed to work for an evacuated orphanage in her neighborhood. She had huge fights with her dad about it, since she made 1 Mark an hour, while he only received 38 Pfennig with working in the forest for the state. I found it funny, that this story popped up this close to #InternationalWomensDay, where #GenderPayGap is one of the central topics usually.

#WomensDay #Genealogy

#Grandma also mentioned her foster-child introducing her to a waitress with the rare name #Steurenthaler (grandma's maiden name) in a restaurant in #Hamburg in the 1970s(?). Unfortunately, I've still not been able to establish contact to Steurenthalers there nor to find the actual connection to them. It might have been https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-11, but I don't know a lot about her due to privacy laws.

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Now also done with this week's #grandma recording: Among others, she told the sad story of the chocolate Easter bunny, she had received from her godfather Edwin #Steurenthaler. She never had seen such a beautiful Easter bunny before, so she wanted to keep it and left it in the room on the table. At one point, the poor bunny had a huge hole in the belly, because it had been standing in the sun for a long time. Grandma cried a lot.

#genealogy #chocolate #Easter

One of this week's quite belated #grandma recordings mentioned her father Ludwig #Steurenthaler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-2, who reportedly as a kid "didn't know neither Christmas nor cake". He always got upset, when his wife's family would bake #Christmas #cookies ... but he ate them anyway. At one point, he devoured a whole bag of them. He threw up from it and was sick for most of the holidays.

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In one of today's #grandma recordings, she told me about her memory of being a 4 year old being taken by her grandma to visit her other grandfather Joseph #Steurenthaler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-4: He gave her a 1 Reichsmark coin as a gift, which her grandma told him was being too much (for the kid). My grandma, being worried about having to give it back, swiftly replied: "no, it's not!"

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Today's #grandma recording mentioned her brother Ludwig #Steurenthaler and how he regularly was sent to get the neighbor's horse - at the age of three. He wasn't afraid at all of the huge animal, while grandma, his nine years older sister was and couldn't be sent for the job. At the same age, he was also already #skiing. People explained it with the fact, that he almost was born while his mother was on #ski.

Only one record from the year 2020 left.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-50

#genealogy #horses

Transcribed the first of the last three #grandma recordings for 2020. A big part was about her father. As a soldier in #WW1, he was stationed in #Alsace/#Elsass at/near Château de Landskron. He kept hearing the bell of nearby Mariastein Abbey in Canton #Solothurn in #Switzerland. He wanted to go there after the war. Grandma was convinced that he got married there. He didn't. But I've found a previously unknown wedding of another #Steurenthaler couple when asking them to check.

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