Re: [Cz-L] Letters from Czernowitz City Council.

Yefim et al,

I have never lived in Czernowitz. My mother was four months old, when she
left. I can not feel what you have felt. I did not live in Europe through the
holocaust and beyond.
My experience in Czernowitz was wonderful. I stood at the graves of ancestors
that no one in my family had seen in 97 years. I wore a yarmulke the entire
time I was there, and felt no prejudice, or anything like it. Instead my family
and I were welcomed into the home of total strangers (non-Jews, by the way),
wined and dined, and left feeling like family.
Most of all, I am a genealogist, which means by definition, a strong caring
for my ancestors. So when I see an opportunity... when I see the City Council
inviting me to do something wonderful for the cemetery where my ancestors lie,
I jump at that opportunity.
I think and hope, that this opportunity, no matter how it plays out, would
unite not only this group, but just maybe, this group and the current resident
of Czernowitz. WE have everything to gain, and nothing to loose.

Bruce Wexler
Received on 2006-10-29 06:34:10