As a child, you were born in Germany about that I was abundant.

Germany in 1918 in April and the war was still going on in the first World War.

And don't forget, this is the first World War.

I'm old and my father was an officer in the German army and he was away when I was born, and that starts my family history.

But I want to tell you about who my their parents were.

She wanted out there.

You're that?

Yes, because I want my Children to know what the heritage is if there was such a thing, is heritage or, uh, background where they come from?

A lot of people here in my retirement home spending a lot of time trying to dig up with the ancestors, were there particularly keen on what country they came from, what they did.

But they only do that when they get old.

So I thought, put it down.

So my Children have to I don't have to go through if they ever want to know if they do want to know.

Fine.

If they don't want to know it.

So the whole thing way.

It's just my way of telling where they come from.

My mother was born in first, Burg and her father and mother lived in a what they call a family compound, which is outside of tone, which has the houses of each of the family members that were given by the patriarch.

It's sort of fun.

Big courtyard, which is very unusual.

They don't do that anymore.

You don't call it a farm because it wasn't.

They raised horses.

Those days.

Horses were necessary for everything.

For the army, for the transportation.

Very Okay.

Uh, my grandfather, uh, was one of the people in the family who forces and went to market to sell them his job.

His job was part of the family, raised the horses.

You know, it's one old family, big family thing.

They're about four or five boys in that, and he went to market on the train courses.

It was some town near in Bavaria, and he sold some horses and on the way back he was going on a train and he had the money from the sale of the horses.

And then some men came, took the money and killed him.

So he died on the train.

So he was.

He was.

It was robbed and killed for the money of the sale of the horses.

I don't How much I don't know anything about.

It was a big thing.

Well, which made my grandmother a widow in this family compound.

And she came from another.

So in a sense, he was ostracized.

She was no longer part of that family, Not meanly, but not well taken care of because there was nobody to support her.

Yeah, it's a family boy.

Have helped the whole compound.

Well, everybody took part.

Yes, it was a family thing.

And she didn't want to be there either.

You know, it was one of those mutual things.

So she moved into the city into the town of Bird's book itself.

And there was and the woman had a son who had gone with a whole bunch of American boys in 18 80 to the United States because they were bored with life in a small town and they wanted to be adventuresome.

So they got together.

I think four or five.

I don't know how many and they came to United States is and came to New York.

They didn't like New York.

They were looking for work, their course in the horse straight because that's what they learned and they went to.

Then they went to Chicago and they didn't like it there.

And then somebody said, You go down, too.

Uh oh, no, not Arizona lodges he had.

I have one of these senior moments which are very embarrassing, and that happened a lot.

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Okay, I'm in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and they had one of those.

I have pictures off they and he was in America and he raised horses with these boys.

And at one point he wanted to go home to see his mother.

His mother was widowed, and he went back to Germany to visit the mother.

The mother said.

Here's this beautiful girl woman and has two Children by mother and sister, and they fell in love, and my grandmother, I want to go to the United States is wonderful, he said.

No, you don't want to go to Santa Fe were outside of town.

We live in a wagon.

There is no operas.

There is no cafe there is not no theater is nothing very elegant, and you can't wear your dress is in your jewelry because she was one of these women who was about dressed and so on, he said.

You can't come, but they got married in and they bought.

This is interesting because it's very important to me and to my Children, a swell because when he came back with a lot of money that time, German money wasn't worth anything.

I'm a mic on too long.

But the point in this is really that he decided to buy some apartment houses, which were then for sale in Sidi Averts Berg.

They were on to three houses behind one another.

And then there was the field, with guards just a big huge garden and in the front where roses and in between her flowers.

And he bought that.

Then came inflation and depression.

He lost all his money.

We lose.

The house is so from then on, our theory in the family was always invest in real estate.

I'm saying this because it's been the mantra invests in real estate because if you lose your money, at least you got a place to live so it was very important.

And that's why I'm making this particular point.

Now, Before we move on, I want to get a few of the names because you mentioned people as as just of their name.

But yeah, let's let's start with your father.

Now.

Let's start with your grandmother.

Bona uh, Holder Holder?

Yeah.

And my grandfather Waas Freed line.

And I'm trying to think of what His first name.

Wallace Freed line here.

The whole plan was freed.

Line this.

This was the man who was killed?

Yes, the freed line.

And, uh, what else did you want to know?

That the names of the two?

Yes, back.

And then?

And then my mother married my father.

He he came back from.

All this is there's another transgression which was also interesting for another reason.

Ah, the Children.

Oh, this new husband, the one who was in Santa Fe.

It was a very nice man.

Two girls and treated him like his daughters.

And he it is.

It's usually customary in Germany to send Children abroad.

They sent my mother to England after she was graduated from high school, which is private school girls school, and her sister went to France to live and other, was sent to England and lived with a wonderful family who introduced her to the arts, to the music, to reading to the theater.

And she was very, very happy because the life of Bird's book was nice, but it was elegant, was well lived, but it was boring.

Can't she blossomed.

So this is another heritage I have is interested.

All these things came from another.

And this is just like we send our Children over abroad now, which is important to the peace card to all those things.

It was important in New York in those states which is 1918 20.

And so you sent your Children away.

That's how I came to the United States later on Cape to States.

So this is the precedent that was sent to Germany in other countries as well.

They exchange.

All right, now, wait now, huh?

With my mother's family, he met my, uh, unless you also want to talk about fathers.

Well, that's what I'm just about to start because I don't know anything about them.

I know only that his father died.

I was very young and he was he went, it was sent to her school.

Now I think it was a Catholic school.

That's why I think he may have been Catholic and I really don't know.

There was no religion in my family.

And then I met his brother and his Children.

They're all Lutheran.

So I said, Well, maybe it was a little babies.

A coffee?

I don't know.

Okay, that's also interesting because there was no mention of it.

So, um, his father died when he was very young.

The father was a candy Burt.

He made Candies and he made a special kind of can which we called sofa pillows like this.

Like a pillow inside was liquid.

On the outside was hard candy.

He invented that as this we thought, and they lived in a nice house in full part in Germany, on the Ryan, a charming place.

And the house is adorable.

It's still there.

It's in town, you know.

But that's all I know about it.

And also that the name Crimson, which was my name and my father's name, was the horse drawn carriage.

It's called a cleanser.

And I had an uncle great uncle of my fathers were brought Thanksgiving, I think in the trip him which recall the Thanksgiving hymn.

It's a history of the family, which is true or natural.

I don't legend.

Anyway, that's about him.

He had brothers and sisters.

Two brothers in the first World War This, uh, s horrible gas mustard cast.

And the other one became a postmaster in co blintz Germany.

And he had three Children.

Hiss son is still doctor in Hamburg who started a health clinic.

The craze that we have today eating only grasses, I call it You started it then the family name of cleanser.

My father's name was Rudolph.

Crime, sir.

Ah, and my cousin down though Crimes is still practicing medicine at 90 three or four right now.

Can't believe it, but he is very impressive.

And he and my parents went there to stay and visit with him.

They said we know everything to eat except grass.

Yes, but you see, this is also so interesting because this is part of our family too, you know, they're buying off real estate and the eating of grass and all these things.

A part of it.

Okay, no, let's pass from that to my childhood.

It was a very happy We spent the summers in my grandmother's house in birds Berg, my parents just there, which was great.

We loved it.

And then they went and had a vacation.

They went to Italy.

They went all over.

They picked us up in the end, took us home, which happened every year.

So have a fun memories of what Spoon play.

Oh goodness.

We've played with the kids.

We played not Reebok everywhere.

We went to the minder swim and learned how to ride a bicycle.

It was so open.

Everything was open.

You came home.

If you want some tea, eat, give you something in your sandwich with jam on it or something.

You know, it was a most carefully, most wonderful time had in the garden.

We ate the vegetables will be picked, pulled carrots right out of the earth and put it in this dirty water that was accumulated from the rainwater and wash Didn't aided me to pick the fruit from the trees.

There was a long did exercises.

I mean, it was just a barbarous childhood school in in well, look moved to Dusseldorf, removed several times because of the war that occupation of Germany.

There are all kinds of bad times of depression, inflation and just everything.

And the Children didn't really notice it.

It removed that life was good.

My parents were nice to each other, but they had very much leisure.

They we went on trips.

We enjoyed everything.

We had a car before anybody else did, which made me very proud.

Had a tele form.

And my school friends didn't have it, which was very early.

So yeah, I'm a service spot and I enjoyed it.

And then my sister was born.

I was seven years older, so she was no problem to me.

She just died this year.

Yes.

She lives in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

My husband is still alive.

Their Children like my well anyway, that I'm dwelling much too much on this very early childhood.

I don't think it was a fantastic time in your life.

Well, I tell you, what's important in that period.

Special inverts Berg, which it was a beautiful town.

They're much the baroque style.

The churches were full of angels and golden everything else, and we went from one church to another as kids just so beautiful with graphic service.