Christmas dinner in a can and ice in the house
| Name: | Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein |
| Description: | Describing how his mother cooked some wheat in a can for their Christmas Eve dinner. Also describes how the hut they lived in would be buried in snow right to the roof line, and the inside walls were covered in ice. (Note: Jerzy has had a stutter since the start of the war, when a bomb landed on their house and frightened him so much that he did not speak at all for some days). |
Tags
- Christmas Eve
- Deportation
- Ice
- Siberia
- Snow
Language:
Polish
Created By:
Shelley Upton
Related Wall of Tribute Record: 147488
Related Museum Galleries:
Author of Memoirs - Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein
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| Place of birth: Poland |
Military Experience Junak Mechanical School, , |
| Place of residence in 1939: Poland , Lwowskie , Lwów |
Place of Residence after 1945 United Kingdom, , , Hartsly Camp |
| Deportations and repressions 00, 00, 1942, , |
Other Wartime Circumstances , , , , , |
| Orphanages: , , , |