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They had just been married. They came from different parts of Germany and met in the central part of Germany where his father was attending a seminary and his mother was working as a housemaid for a family, looking after the children. When he completed his studies he felt very strongly that God was leading him to move to Canada and to leave Germany because of the political situation of that time. So his father made an application for emigration to Canada. Actually, he had applied to two places, Canada and the United States because he had connections in Chicago as well. Papers to Canada came through first, that is why Rogalski's parents came to Canada. They had some friends in Winnipeg they connected up with. They first lived in the city and then moved to the outskirts of Winnipeg, to the northwestern area of the city, it was called Brooklands. At that time, the Depression was just starting, work was hard to get and money in very short supply. Rogalski's parents were able to rent a little house in that area which was cheap, and that's where they raised a family. They were four children in the family, Rogalski is the second-oldest. The sort of rural living was a very good experience for them, they had lots of room, Prairie area to play in. The place had a large garden at the side. His parents grew their own vegetables and provides food during the long winter months for the family. 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Rogalski recalls that his father attended a seminary preparing men for mission ministry in Russia. His father had some disappointing experiences with some of the fathers there, as he was very idealistic in his younger years. He believed that if a person had two coats, he should get rid of one. This together with the political situation in Russia, he corrects himself: in Germany where they socialists, he corrects himself: the National-Socialists were making inroads - and Rogalski's father didn't like what he saw there and decided to leave the country. It was a hard decision for his father, and even harder for his father's family because his father's parents couldn't understand why he would want to do something like that. Actually, his father had been an electrician by trade, and his parents could not understand why he would leave the country when there was all kinds of work for him there. It was his father's personality and his individualistic attitude that he made this decision to leave. His father did not talk about specific events why he wanted to leave. There were some specific events at the seminary. Rogalski does not know if it were those things that made him to leave as much as the political climate in Germany at the time. His father felt led by God that he needed to make a new start somewhere else. There were a lot of people immigrating to Canada in those years. From the German perspective, everything across the ocean was America. His parents discovered only in Canada that there were two different countries (in North America). Rogalski does not know for sure how his parents learned about Canada. There was a man living in Winnipeg, the son of a man whom his father called his spiritual mentor. And this man was working for the Eaton's company. That's why Rogalski's parents specifically decided to come to Winnipeg. His parents liked it in Winnipeg, and later on, his parents were the only ones of both sides of the family who came to Canada. So Rogalski had no relatives, he did not have any grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins.\nWhen the war began and finally when the war ended, it became more and more clear to his parents, the reason why they should be here. They were able to help their relatives in Germany to get over this difficult time after the Second World War. His parents sent a lot of parcels and financial aid to them. None of them came to Canada after the war.\nIn 1945, when the war ended, most of the children in the family did not speak that much German any more. Rogalski's parents did, they mostly talked German to them, and they talked back English. When the war ended, his parents wanted their children to learn German in order to communicate with their relatives back in Germany. Rogalski's father made a deal with him: If he would speak nothing but German for one year in the house (not outside, only in the house), he would be given a wrist watch: \"Having a wrist watch back in 1945 was something pretty special, especially for a 14-year-old. But unfortunately, I never got a wrist watch.\"\nRogalski's parents never put any specific restrictions on language use. In pre-school time, he mostly spoke German with his parents but after that, he spoke only English. Rogalski still speaks some German as his wife came over from Germany in 1950 and did not speak that much English first. Thus, he picked up the language again a little bit more, and that helped him to keep the language. Asked if he wants to continue the interview in German, Rogalski says that he does not think that he would do that well: \"No, I think I'd rather stick to the English.\"\nRogalski's father was born in the city of Elbing in East Prussia (today Elbląg, Poland), his mother in Halle. That was in Saxony in the central part of Germany (today Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). Rogalski's wife was born in Russia but came to Germany during the war. She is of German descent/background/heritage. When the German army got into Russia, they (his wife's family) were able to get back to Germany with the help of German troops at that time (in 1941). Then they settled in Germany and had to flee a couple of times when the Russians advanced into Germany. Then they were living as refugees in the Northern part of Germany, close to the Danish border, and when the opportunity came, they emigrated to Canada. His wife had a cousin here. They came in 1950. 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They were fortunate because the wild open Prairies were ideal to grow up in. There was lots of room to play, a lot of fun and it was a good time.\nThey look at a picture of Rogalski with his mother, sister and brother. A younger sister was born later. She might have been born already then but just wasn't in that picture. The picture was taken in 1937 or 1938.\nNot far from their home, there was a track of the CPR main line going west. On the other side, there was the city proper with running water, on their side, there was no running water. Now, it is an industrial area. In the picture, one can see the gravel road with a wooden raise and a wooden sidewalk. It was a very low area, in the spring time, it was often all flooded. Rogalski is looking for some other pictures with sailing boats in the water.\nRogalski's mother sang a lot with the children and played the guitar with them. She also played games with them. She also did different kinds of handwork. They did not even have a radio at that time. They had to make their entertainment and spend time together as a family. His mother had been trained as a kindergarten teacher, so she had all kinds of ideas what she could do with children on rainy days. Rainy days were never boring for them. They were sitting around a table and made birthday cards for birthdays coming up. Rogalski's sister did knitting, and the boys did other things.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58690/file/132990#t=895.0,1117.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58690/file/132990/index/52129/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"birthday cards","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"floods","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"games","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kindergarten","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knitting","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"radio","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rain","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"siblings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tap water","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58690/file/132990#t=895.0,1117.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58690/file/132990/index/52129/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Singing, father's career, lay ministry","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58690/file/132990#t=1117.0,1293.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58690/file/132990/index/52129/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rogalski recalls that they sang German folk songs with his mother, in addition to the songs they had learned at the Sunday school.\nRogalski's father never served full time as a pastor. He serves in the lay ministry. Because of the experiences he had, his father made the decision never to serve in the ministry for money. Whenever God would use him, he would be open and willing to do that but he would never do that for pay. That's what he told him once. Probably his father would have had the opportunity to serve in a church but when he came to Canada, he just pursued his profession as an electrician and worked for a couple of different companies. He changed his trade then and became a tool and die maker which came very handy for him as there was a lot of work for tool and die makers during the war. A lot of machinery and stuff was made. His father also made farming equipment and so on. It ended up being a good trade for him but his father never served in the ministry as a full-time job. He did serve in the church that they attended. His father taught in the Sunday school for adults and did some preaching too. He also served in the mission ministry that their church had in the outskirts of Winnipeg, in Oakbank, Whitemouth and Moosehorn. His father would always be out traveling to some place. When the children got older, they went along with him by train. 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It was the first place, Rogalski shows a picture of the second house. They had two different homes in that area, just one block apart. The first one was a rented place, a very small home, it had just a kitchen and a living room and two very tiny bedrooms. Later on, his parents had the opportunity to purchase a house (he shows the picture) for a \"fairly reasonable price\", it cost 500 dollars. It had a nice large yard with an even bigger garden. They bought it for 500 dollars, and five years later, they sold it for 800 dollars, and Rogalski's father had a guilty conscience about that. He felt bad for the man who was buying it. The real estate man helped him to sell it and told him \"that's the way it is\". Then the family moved into the city. The house had a living room and an added-on kitchen. It looked like an add-on but was built at the same time. It had also a dining room. It had one bedroom downstairs. It had another bed room upstairs where all the children slept. Then there was a little attic area. Rogalski still remembers the tiny little window (he points at the picture). Whenever there was a thunder storm, they were scared, and their father took them to this little window, and they saw wide open spaces. There was a fence stretching across the open Prairie area. It was the boundary of the CPR yard at that time. Whenever there was lightning, his father would explain to the children this phenomenon: \"Watch out for this, watch the next lightning, watch out for that house.\" That took the fear of thunder storms away.\nThe winters were a little bit harder because there was no running water and they had to go up the street to a pump. The pump would freeze, and they had to take along a kettle of hot water to pour down on the pump to loosen up the pump again. All the water had to be hauled from the pump for washing clothes, dish washing. Rogalski's parents collected rain water, a couple of barrels can be seen in the picture. They collected rain water (soft water) for washing hair.\nRogalski's parents moved into the city with their children in 1942. They lived out there for almost 10 years altogether. His parents didn't move out there immediately after their arrival in Canada, they lived in the city for a year or a little bit longer. When they had no children, they rented a room in houses. When Rogalski's sister and Rogalski were born, his parents needed more space.\nAsked why his parents moved back into the city, Rogalski recalls that his parents economic situation improved when time went on. They wanted to be closer to where his father worked, and also closer to the church because the church was a big part of their family's life. The connection to the church family made his parents feel comfortable and accepted, \"well, accepted wasn't a big problem\". 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There was always a lot of snow. Rogalski looks at a picture: That was how they learned to skate on a pond. It was at a neighbours place, it was where the lady used to empty the slop pail, and it would just freeze over, and this was where they used to skate and tripped over orange peels and potato peels.\nRogalski does not remember exactly but thinks that his mother took these pictures. His father had a Kodak box camera, called \"Kodak box\" which he had for a long time. His father also took some indoor pictures. His parents still had a lot of family in Germany: His mother had one sister, his father four siblings, and his parents would send pictures home to their families, how things were progressing for them in Canada.\nThe winters were long, and the fences were always covered with snow. There were times when they just walked over what used to be the gate completely covered with snow. \nRogalski's parens did not have a car, \"that was another hardship\". His father always had to walk from his home to the street car at the corner of Logan Avenue and Keewatin Street. He also had to walk in the winter time. When he thinks back he realizes that it was really a though time. It was a fairly long trip to work for his father, as the street cars do not go as fast as the busses go now. His father had to leave early in the morning, and before he did that, he had to haul water from the pump to have water supply for the day. When he got home from work, probably very tired, he had to do the same. They had a huge barrel in the kitchen where they always put in snow in the winter time. They would use the melted snow as soft water. The heating was just done by wood. They had to bring wood in from the wood pile to keep the house warm. Times were different but Rogalski's parents seemed to be happy.\nIn the summer time, the street car stop at the corner of Logan Avenue and Keewatin Street was a 20 or 25 minutes walk away. He is pretty sure you could make it in 20 minutes. But coming home in the winter time, you had to walk against the North wind. It was wide-open Prairie. 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The first house that they rented was a little bit closer to school than the second one but the second house was closer to the bus stop for his father. Rogalski enjoyed the walk to school in the summer. They searched out the nests of the meadowlarks, they marked it with a stick and visited the nest everyday when they went to school. They never disturbed them, they just looked at what kind of progress the nests were making, the eggs hatched then, it was exciting to see that. He enjoyed the meadowlarks, it is a beautiful bird with a beautiful song.\nThe school Rogalski attended was a two-room school. It was called the Woodsworth School, named after Mr. Woodsworth who was the founder of CCF party (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation). Woodsworth was an older white-haired gentleman, Rogalski remembers seeing him at the school one day. He brought a whole box of seashells that he had brought from the Maritimes. Rogalski was impressed that Woodsworth had been to the ocean, miles away. 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He reconnected with June Thompson (pictured in a photograph). Rogalski taught at a high school for ten years, and she had one of her children going to that school. Thompson's son brought home his yearbook, and his mother discovered Rogalski's picture and name, so she came and visited him. He has not seen her in 30 or 40 years, it would be interesting to reconnect to her again.\nThe Burstein family and the Rogalskis attended the same church but they moved away to Eastern Canada but somehow he kept connections with George who was about a year older than him. They came back to Winnipeg where his wife was from. 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People's economic situation improved. His father had more work at that time, more steady work, and was earning more money. His parents bought their house for 2200 dollars. They sold their previous house for 800 dollars. That was a big step up for the family. Things really did get better. That was in 1942. About three years later, the war ended. His father told him later on that he had been in a position to buy a car in 1945 but that was when the need over in Europe started to make itself known, they reconnected with family and relatives in Germany. It was a really tough time for the people to get re-established over there. Most of them (Rogalski's relatives) had to leave their home and were just living as refugees in other parts of Germany. His parents started to send money and parcels. He remembers that every week...in the wintertime, they took four, five parcels wrapped up to the drug store to be mailed to Germany. So his father said, we sent our car over to Germany in 1945, 1946, 1947 and so on. For three or four years, they were able to do that. The need was there and the car had to wait a couple of more years. Finally, his parents bought a car in 1950, 21 years after his parents came to Canada. But that was not unusual, in those days, people just didn't have cars, not everybody had cars. Even on Lipton street (in Winnipeg), just a few people had cars. 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There was not enough food for them, and they got sick with typhoid fever or something like that. That was his father's parents. His mother's father survived the war. His mother's mother had died years before, when his mother had been only 14. 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His father never tried to pretend that he was from some other country like from Holland or from Austria. A lot of German people said that they were from Austria. But Rogalski's father definitely was opposed to the Hitler-regime, to the Nazi regime in Germany. The rise of the Nazi party in Germany was begin to be felt in those years.\nAsked what was it about the Nazi party his father was opposed to, Rogalski recalls that does not exactly know because in those days, a lot of the things that went on during the war, the Holocaust and that many Jews were killed, these were all things that came out later on. But there was something that rather repulsed his father (his parents) and he felt that he didn't want to be a part of.\nRogalski remembers that there was a couple of men there, they went to bible study together at the church, and after the bible study, they walked home with a couple of other people. He remembers them (his parents) standing on the corner of Arlington and Notre Dame (in Winnipeg) and arguing with some of the guys there, how things were going in the war (he laughs); or not arguing but discussing very animatedly how things were going in the war and how the prospects were and so on and so forth. It was very often through experiences like that that Rogalski found out was his father's position was, not that he would actually sit him down and say, look, we have to talk about this. He just knew of his father's philosophy. When the war was over, they talked a little more about it, and Rogalski was getting older too and understood more.\nRogalski admits that it was a conflict for his father that his brothers were fighting in the war on the German side. One of the things that he experienced in the later part of the 1930s: The German government made a very concerted effort to try to bring German people that were living in other parts of the world back into Germany. One of the things Hitler said was that he wanted to create a pure Aryan race, and he wanted to get all the German people that were pure Germans back into Germany as soon as he could. That was in the late 1930s. Rogalski recalls that his father got mail from his brother and from his father urging him to come back to Germany. By then, the Germans were not aware about the negative things as Hitler had done a lot of good things. He built roads, buildings: \"He did a lot of good for the country, we have to admit that.\" Some things that were not so good were more known outside of Germany than in Germany itself. They (people in Germany) said that there is a lot of work and the living standard is high, they were doing very well and urged his father to come back to Germany. And the German government at that time would have even paid the way for people to get back to Germany. But Rogalski's father refused to do that because he did not see this as God's plan for him and his family. 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Rogalski replies that he can't really say. His parents basically talked German amongst themselves, they did that pretty much right until the end. His mother eventually got Alzheimer's and had to go to a nursing home. The reading they did was also mostly in German although his mother read a lot of English books too once she got a better grasp of the English language. In that sense, the always considered themselves a German family, like an accepted fact, that's the way it was.\nSaint Nicholas Day on December 6 was not celebrated. Advent was always celebrated in their home. They had an Advent calendar, somebody from Germany must have sent that, maybe his aunt who sent them a lot of stuff from Germany. Each day they would open a window in the Advent calendar. Rogalski can't recall if it was just a picture or if there was something to read in there. They also lit the first candle on the first Sunday of Advent, the second candle on the second Sunday and so on. 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The second interviewer asks about Rogalski's cultural identity now today. Rogalski states that he still fairly strongly identifies with his German background. He has to admit that, and maybe more so because his wife is also of German background. His mother-in-law lived with them for the first years of their married life and she didn't speak very much English, and Rogalski had to communicate in German with her, and their children had to communicate in German with her too. All of their children can understand German while their speaking skills are pretty limited for some of them. Rogalski himself can still speak the language and understand and read it. He doesn't read any amount of German at all but he can read it. 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His wife was a post-war migrant, and someone sponsored her and her family to come to Canada. Even Rogalski's parents had a sponsor in 1929. The man who worked at Eaton's (Rogalski mentioned him earlier) was his parents' sponsor. Rogalski's wife was living with a cousin, her mother and her sister (in Germany). Her father was taken away back in Russia in 1935 by the Secret Police, and she never heard of him again. His wife had a brother too but he sort of left the family (in Germany) and went on his own. He was about ten years older than his wife, and he left the family to work in Berlin later on. Although they did keep in touch...and her brother ultimately did come to Winnipeg, and did very well for himself in Canada too. He owned the Favourite Transport business, a big trucking company with a big letter \"F\" on the door. That was his business. Anyway, his wife, her mother and sister lived together with a female cousin who was an orphan. And this cousin, from her father's side, had some relatives here in Canada. It is an interesting story: The father of this cousin came to Canada in 1911 but the mother didn't want to come with the children, so he went by himself. He ultimately remarried here in Canada and started a second family. This cousin came over through this second family, she connected with them through the Red Cross. One year later, this cousin sponsored Maria (Rogalski's wife), her mother and sister to come over to Canada. The cousin met a gentleman who was a widower, and married him, and it was through them that Rogalski's wife came to Canada. They lived close to the church, just one block away. It was a German church, so they attended it. Rogalski was singing in the choir at that time, and the choir director invited his future wife. A lot of German people were coming to the church at that time. The immigration really expanded the membership in the church and the participation in the church. Rogalski met his wife in the choir. 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Rogalski can't recall that there was some hostility. He was 19 years old then. Maybe there was a bit of that among the older generation. There was fear that the immigrants would take the jobs away but that never proved to be true: The more people come, the more work; they make work. Immigration always proved to be a boom for a country, a big help for a country. The interviewer explains that she has asked because in Mennonite churches, there was a difference between those who had been there before and the post-war immigration.\nWhen the immigration started in 1948, they had started to introduce more English into the church. Some of the German people who came wanted an all-German church. They had a fairly large group of people in 1951 or 1952 who broke away from the church to start an all-German church. The interesting thing was that there was a good number of the old-timers that went with that group to form that church, people who had been here for many years, some of them even longer than his parents, that had come over in the early 1920s (Rogalski's parents came in 1929 which was pretty much the end of that immigration period). Some of these families went with those new immigrants to start an all-German church. The other interesting thing was that some of these, at least two families, had young people in their families that had already married into English families, whose daughters had married English guys. And these people still insisted on German in that worship service in the church. They didn't seem to recognize the need for us to have some English to accommodate those who didn't understand German. 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