[Cz-L] Personal Intro: Hadassa Kav-el, born BULLER

Dear Friends:

I am forwarding the message below from list member Hadassa Kav-El.
You can reach her directly <gerrard_at_012.net.il>.

Best wishes,

Bruce Reisch

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 06:00 +0200, hadassa wrote:
> Czernowitzers,
>
> My name is Hadassa Kav-el,born Buller, on 1940 in Vashkautz,a shtetl on the
> Cheremush between Vijnitz and Czernowitz. My mother Lucia(Lea) was the
> daughter of Ester and Srul Gottesman, who had a "kreitchme" in Wolchenetz.
> My father, Berko, was the youngest of the six children of Huge and Moishe
> Buller who had a business of tanning and leather in Vashkautz.
> When the Russians invaded bukowina, on 1940, two of the Bullers were already
> in Palestina. The rest of the family except us ,was sent to Sybiria as
> "capitalists and Zionists". My father and my pregnant mother were driven out
> of their home and were allowed to stay at Dr. Gruders (the jewish doctor of
> Vashkautz) where I was born.
> On the autemn of 1941 most of the bukowinian jews were driven thru Mogilev,
> over the Dneister to transnistria and we were among them. Together with my
> mother`s parents we landed in Djurin, where we spent the war years. Somehow
> we survived and came back to Czernowitz in 1944. my father then went back to
> Vashkautz and soon was murdered by Banderovzes (ukrainan nazies) who threw
> his body into the frozen river. In 1945 we passed into Romania ,where my
> grandfather died. My grandmother got then a certificate to Palestina .my
> mother managed to smuggle me onto the ship . my gramma and me arrived in
> Haifa on may 1946. it took my mother another year and a half to join us.
> I grew up and live in Israel. I studied and was a math teacher until my
> retirement. I married a wonderfull guy ,Gerard, originally from algiria and
> we have four children and three grandchildren.
> Three years ago I went to visit Bukowina accompanied by my husband and one
> of my daughters. We visited all the places and cemeteries concerning our
> family. We found some of the graves, said "kadish" and took many pictures.
> In Wolchenetz we even found two neighbors who remembered my grandparents.
> And that was it!
> Frankly I don't think I will ever go back there, as I can not find in myself
> even one good sentiment towards neither Ukraine nor Romania nor their
> habitants.
> I am very glad to have found the czernowitzer group of jewish people and
> will happily meet the group in Israel.
>
> Hadassa
Received on 2006-07-24 07:18:42