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School lessons in Fritzl dungeon

Marie Claire news: Austrian, girl locked up for 24 years

Elisabeth Fritzl, the imprisoned daughter of Josef Fritzl, home-schooled her children in their underground prison, her lawyer has revealed.

'Elisabeth tried to educate the children in the dungeon,' Christoph Herbst told Channel 4's The Secrets of the Austrian Cellar - a new documentary about the family's ordeal.

'They had lessons, they learned grammar, they learned the language, mathematics.

'So they have been raised very well, they are very well behaved... I think Elisabeth tried to give them a structure and a good life under the circumstances in the dungeon.'

Meanwhile, Herbst says the family is getting on with life and the children are coping well as they adjust to their new circumstances.

'They rise at about six or seven in the morning. Then they have breakfast together, they get the breakfast from the hospital... Then they sit together at a large table and talk, discuss and make jokes.

'Then everybody does their own thing. They play on the computer, they read books, do some drawings, whatever they want... It's very amazing to watch the family because they behave like a normal family.'

The Secrets of the Austrian Cellar will appear tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.

Wednesday 21 May 2008


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Everything I have read, has pointed toward a young woman who was extremely intelligent, who could have made an excellent life for herself with those 24 years stolen from her... and been a wonderful Life Companion... there is nothing, not one thing, that she should be refused, by the Austrian Gov and social/legal system... she has paid a horrible price...
Comment by David on June 07 08:10

From everything I've read, she is amazing this Elizabeth. She is so strong to have survived in such circumstances with her children. It is obviously due to her that her surviving children made it this far! She is amazing!!

She should get huge compensation from Austrian government, everyone let her down! HUGE!!
Comment by fuller walker on May 27 17:26

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