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Martha Dobrainsky/Marieanne Koch
Wer kennt diese Frau?
Who knows the woman?
Martha Dobrainsky, geboren am 27.2. 1925 in Plurastika (Koenigshuette) Schlesien, Polen
Eltern/Parents: Franz Dobrainsky & Sofia Novotny
Paten/Godparens: Riszewski Henryk & Meta Dobrainsky
Taufschein/Certificate unterzeichnet/signed: Cursatis Animuarum mpo Hotel Europe & Prof. Jozef-Stefan, Lageseelsorger, in Salzburg den 7.3. 1947
Oder wer kennt sie unter diesen Name ? Or do you know her under this name?
Marieanne Koch, Tochter von Robert Koch und Catharina. Keine weitere Angaben/ no other information.
A description from the daughter.
My
mother told me she was from Upper Silesia. As a child she wore wooden shoes to
play in the cold and snow. The shoes had straw tucked into them for extra
warmth. There was a train station near by that she would go to and catch a
train into the mountains to go skiing. She and her friends would lie on their
backs in the snow to sunbathe and make snow angels. Once when she was swimming
in a moat by a castle, she became tangled in the weeds and almost drowned. She
visited the castle where Martin Luther had thrown his ink pot at the devil and
she saw the ink stain still on the wall. Sometime in her early years, she had
an emergency appendectomy. She told of the cold winters and how the windows
would ice over. She would use her fingernail to rub away the ice to see
outside. Houses there had stone fences around them with broken glass on top so
that intruders could not climb over. The woods were kept clean by people
gathering wood for their fires.
My mother told my father that her grandparents had owned a porcelain factory.
When her uncle died, the church bells rang. She sang in the choir at church.
She went to school where the instructor would hit their hands with a ruler if
they gave the wrong answer. The students were taught to knit their own
stockings and undershirts. She was also taught the art of paper cutting,
knitting, crocheting, cross stitch, embroidery and sewing.
She told me her name was Koch. She wrote her name as Marieanne.
She fled to Dresden and was wounded in February 1947. She never would speak to
me of those times but told friends. She told me of hiding in the ground in snow
caves, only having snow to eat or drink. Her hands and feet were hurt severely
by the cold freezing weather. Some how she made her way to Salzburg where she
made friends (or perhaps had already friends) with some people from the Ukraine.
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