Loading ...Yes they do as I was one of them lol We all worked hard especially night shift in those days. The nuns needed rest and put in as much as 16 hour days day after day. Hopefully things are better and kniw they are in some ways due to labor laws but also brough up costs. The patients were humble strong and proud and would do as much for self as possible and biggest fear was dependence unlike tiday and many would will themselves to die at that point in those days also no stranger to hard work that showed on some of there bodies sometime. No one these days knows of malformations or injuries causing them to slump over from a woman driving buggies by themselves starting at a young age. They were strong in their beliefs and kept their rosearies by their side and prayed a lot.
My great grand mother hungarian and her daughter my great aunt who migrated or escaped from Hungary to Illinois also donated there as my G grandmother owned her own sewing shop where peopke from all over the world including the elitist would custom order hand made and beaded dresses, coats and hats. They would also donate their time and money with the church handing out food and besides the depression people were escaping Europe as and came with nothing. I remember one Hungarian man told me he had to swim across a river to get out of certain death and when he got to the other side he flipped them off. They had to leave all behind except their memories and skills. Some people didn’t make it across that river. Another told me how they with children had to get through a bobbed wire fence with German soilders picking them off. Broke my heart hearing the stories and how close they came to never making it and their sadness to those who didn’t.