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Formerly Jews had servants, I don’t even know a family who hadn’t. Each family had one, because they used to say that food didn’t matter. This was the slogan. That it could be acquired somehow. People didn’t cook like they do today, in portions.
There was always left [food], so one more always could [eat]of it. And poverty was so deep in villages, that they sent them [girls]at the age of 12-13-14 already to exist somehow. They were beggars, one couldn’t imagine that, the villager woman was barefoot until she could, because if she bought a pair of shoes, she was happy to have something to put on Sundays and on holidays. Hungary was even called ‘the country of three million beggars’.
There was always left [food], so one more always could [eat]of it. And poverty was so deep in villages, that they sent them [girls]at the age of 12-13-14 already to exist somehow. They were beggars, one couldn’t imagine that, the villager woman was barefoot until she could, because if she bought a pair of shoes, she was happy to have something to put on Sundays and on holidays. Hungary was even called ‘the country of three million beggars’.
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Hungary
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Alice Kosa