cannot write more. I thank you most sincerely for your work. The Lord should bless you, give you health, blessing and grace. Dear brothers and sisters united In the Lord

With heartfelt greetings Katharina Urbach and families. Grunstadt, Germany.

Please excuse the grammatical errors

P.S. Life In the village Huck was also bound with many difficulties. My parents were farmers. They worked for their daily bread day and night. Then there were still vegetable gardens, melons

and pumpkin patches. There was all sorts of hand work, mainly the women, because the men

were busy with the field work. There was also a failed harvest in the year 1921. Hunger, illness,

the people died. The greatest help was for my parents, grandmother, and twelve more souls. By

help from America, from my uncles and aunts and from Lincoln, Nebraska and from Canada from

the uncles. I cannot tell you about their fate. I was still a child. But there was porridge and

"Kaukas" for my grandmother and me in the kitchen. I fetched it. In 1922 there was then a good

harvest and things improved. But collectivization began In 1929. Farmers who had earned their

livelihood were dispossessed and banished to the Far North. There they died In masses.

Grandmother died in 1931. In 1932 the family became ill from typhoid. Father died in 1933.

Then came the year of famine because the authorities had taken our reserve supplies, cattle, cows,

and whatever there was. Then the majority died of starvation. We received 10 dollars from American and could save ourselves from starvation – It was help from our relatives.

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