Memories of My Ancestral Home
I always thought that the village had been burned down or otherwise destroyed. When I learned that it still remained, I was overjoyed. To find the small houses just as they were, was a gift that allowed me to really step back in time.

This is a house just like the ones that my parents lived in. Each plank of wood, every worn shingle, the entrance, the garden, the wood storage, connected me to their lives. I tried to remember all that my mother had told me, and now I could finally see it as it was then.

Closeup of a pre-war house

The pre-war house: rear view, side entrance.

Onions stored alongside the house

Firewood stored for the winter

The splitting block for firewood

Typical Divin landscape

 

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