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Leslie J Scarborough
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Tishi: Refugee, Immigrant, Mother
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Women Strong
How inspiring for my mother at age 11, to witness her mother take control and manage a very scary situation. She offered the Russian officers shelter and services(she and her mother cooked for the officers), in exchange for protection. Those Russian troops that occupied German villages after WWII were notoriously brutal. It must have been tension-fraught and dicey, yet with the men gone, the women found a way to survive and keep their children safe.
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Tishi: Refugee, Immigrant, Mother
My mother became the heroine of the neighborhood. Whereas she was normally a person who tried to be inconspicuous and unobtrusive, she now sym-bolized strength and action to our neighbors. Most of them were afraid to stay in their own homes and wanted to come to our house since we had the Russian officers with us.
A number of women and children moved in with us and it got quite crowded. We were permitted to keep our bedroom and kitchen. The officers occupied the rest of the house. Thus, everybody was crammed into one bedroom. We slept on the floor, together in beds, wherever there was room. Safety was more important than sleep. We all took care of each other.
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