[Cz-L] HARDY"S "PYARNE"

"Das Sichen Haus" or "Irrenanstalt" or if you want the "Pyarne" with
Julius Gross were deported "en block" to Carera de Piatra in
Transnistria on the Bug. I was there and saw the poor souls wander
around begging for food or shelter and Julius Gros raving. One night
we heard shots and the next day they were not there. After some days
I went down to the Bug and saw their bodies scattered on the slope of
a small hill. The Romanian Gendarmes did it. After that the majority
of the people from the "Carera" (among them Selma Meerbaum Eisinger)
were transferred to the Germans across the Bug . I'm not sure if any
of them survived. I visited the site in 2001 and could locate the
small hill.
Yosef Eshet (Jerry Wolf)
Raanana, Israel

----- Original Message ----
From: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: czernowitz2006_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 24 April, 2006 7:34:30 AM
Subject: [czernowitz2006] DIE PYARNE

DIE PYJARNE.

   ON THE FRANZENSGASSE ,AFTER THE DREIFALTIGKEITSGASSE AND
FRANZOSGASSE WAS THE MOST POSH PART OF THE TOWN.
   BEAUTIFUL HOUSES SURROUNDED BY APPLE AND CHERRY TREES ON THE EAST
SIDE OF THE STREET ,STRETCHING DOWN A SLOPE DOWN TO THE
BAHNHOF. THE WEST SIDE SKIRTED THE RESIDENZ .
     ON THIS STREET ALSO RESIDED THE INSTITUTION FOR THE MENTALLY
DISTURBED. STADTISCHES IRRENHAUS . CASA DE NEBUNI.
    WE JEWS CALLED IT THE " PYJARNE".

     NOW ,YOU BAD PEOPLE , WILL IMMEDIATELY SUGGEST THAT MY
FAMILIARITY WITH THE DETAILS ARE DUE TO THE FACT THAT I ESCAPED FROM
THIS INSTITUTION ON AN EVENING WHEN THEY FORGOT TO LOCK UP..
I STRONGLY REJECT THIS ALLEGATION !

    IT WAS IN AUGUST 1941 BEFORE THE GHETTO AND I USED TO COME WITH MY
TANTE TO VISIT SOME OLD LADY WHO LIVED NEXT TO THE HOUSE.
    I USED TO WATCH THE INMATES AND HAD A LOT OF FUN OBSERVING THEIR
STRANGE BEHAVIOUR.
     THERE WAS FELLOW , THEY CALLED JULIUS , WHO WAS A FAMOUS ACTOR
IN THE THEATRE , BEFORE HE WENT NUTS.
HE USED TO ENACT ALL HIS DRAMATIC ROLES HE DID ON THE SCENE BEFORE
BEING INTERNED.
DIE RAUBER, JULIUS CAESAR, FAUST, AND OTHERS.
   HE HAD A DRAMATIC VOICE AND HIS GERMAN WAS IMPECCABLE.
    WE ENJOINED THIS VERY MUCH AND APPLAUDED AND ASKED FOR MORE.
    AND THAN CAME THE GERMANS WHO HAD SOME GARRISON IN THE VICINITY
AND WERE PASSING CONTINUOUSLY.
    JULIUS NO LONGER PERFORMED IN THE YARD AND WE MISSED HIM.
     THEN ONE MORNING ,AS I PASSED THE HOUSE I HEARD A VOICE: JULIUS !
     HE WAS STANDING ON A BALCONY AND WAS ADRESSING THE GERMAN NATION
: " DEUTSCHES VOLK , WIR GEHEN DEN REICH DER JAHRTAUSENDE
ENTGEGEN...."
    HITLERS SPEECHES ! THE GERMAN SOLDIERS ON THE STREET STOPPED AND
NOT BEING AWARE OF THE SITUATION SHOUTED" SIEG HEIL!"
      RUMANIAN GEANDARMS WANTED TO STOP THIS SACRILEGE BUT WERE
STOPPED BY THE GERMANS : " NICHT UNTERBRECHEN ! LASST WEITER MACHEN ".

    A MONTH LATER THE PYJARNE WAS ANIHILATED.
      SO WAS THE REST OF CZERNOWITZER JEWRY.

HARDY
Received on 2006-04-24 19:30:26