Gerda Bretzlaff (left), Gerd Hemken (centre) and Karl Erfle (right) are three of the few remaining German speakers in Thorne, and recently gathered in Bretzlaff’s home in Ladysmith for a conversation about the language’s legacy in a community once founded in part by German settlers.
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