My great grandmother was born near Munkacz in the same room as her sister but four years apart and they were born in two different countries. Her sister was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and she was born in Czechoslovokia! My great grandmother and namesake lived in Tarpa, Hungary. When it was difficult to make a living after WWI, they resorted to smuggling across the nearby border. Every morning they would take their children across the border and the guard would search them. The guards knew they were smuggling something but they could never figure out what. They didn't realize that they were leaving dressed, coming back barefoot, and smuggling shoes! |