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That would be an interesting TV show concept.

Debora

 

The Commodore 64 might find a home among gamers who play legacy systems. They want old tube TVs too, because old games look really funny on new sets.

As to the vodka bottles, some potato farmers somewhere are sad that they have lost a good customer.

 

Those are sad, but interesting survivals. Some of my family was from the part of Prussia that was really Poland; from the names I wonder if her family was too . The handwriting back then was so much better than mine...not that it would take much!

 

Would this have been like her passport or something she was always required to have on her person?

Is there a market for this type of stuff at your boot sales?

 

Yep. An identify card for internal use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germa...te (Identification,Third Reich era in Germany.

Debora

 

Internal passport/travel papers.

 

My Grandparents would not buy from anti semitic countries for a long time. They said they would rather go without. It was common practice then, and we know understandable. Kind of like know we cringe if we have to hand anyone our credit card.

 

We had a family friend when I was a teen, who had terminal cancer. Quit his very successful job, and unfortunately became an alcoholic & a hoarder. He lived for close to 5 years, he took his own life to “save” his family from hardships. It created even more for them. Short of breath — My Grandmother used the same term but for a different meaning - it would be to hold your tongue if you have nothing nice to say.

 

And they still do something similar w/ the book when you marry. My son waited for us to arrive so I could fill out his portion before he got married.