Dear all,
Whoever lived in our town spent the summer at the Prut. I only remember the
Gansehaufel, but as you mention there were other beaches too.
I must admit that all my childhood I spent from June (end of school year)
till mid August in Eisenau (Vatra Dornei) where we rented houses without
electricity, oil lamps and Fliegenpapier (sticky fly paper) full of them.
That was till 1939. In 1940 we stayed at home and so I spent it at the Prut.
Back to the Prut. I remember I had a PORTABLE !!!
gramaphone with manuella and in the lid a compartment for (breakable)
records. We were a small crowd Vicky Gedali included and we did go down by
streetcar. Now, there was nr.1 from, I think the Volksgarten, I caught it on
the Ringplatz, down hill to the Prut. We brought food and stayed there from
morning till evening when we took streetcar 2 (same as 1, he just changed
the leaver and the nr.) and went up the hill. We swam, had fun and in the
afternoon we danced in the Pavillion. We made a lot of noise and for me it
was the first and last carefree summer in Cz. !!!
Although, when I was recalled from my school in Galati, Sept. 1939, I
arrived to see the first fleeing Jews from Poland. Going up the steep hill
from the Prut to the city carts full of people carrying bedding and pots and
pans. Many horses could't make the steep hill and men were helping them by
pushing from behind. Babies and children crying, old and young people
looking hopeless, a picture never to be forgotten. The town looked like a
refugee camp. Why I was recalled?? Because my parents never thought that we
we'll have to go through this ourselves. Who could have iamgined a war like
ours.
The Prut was also a refuge under the Germans. The Poles tried to swim across
it to the "safety" of Cz. In Betar we took them in. 5 lived in my house
until my mother found people who had certificates either US or Palestine and
they took 4, 3 boys one girl, with them. They all saw their parents being
shot and drowned but, at that time "Trauma" wasn't treated and we all
survived.
That I'm afraid is my Prut story, memories of terror and fear and terrible
stories the chidren all 14-12 or so, from Warsaw and vilages watching death
and running blindly hoping to survive.
Sorry Czernowitz does not hold happy memories for
me.
All the best,
anny
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, ILANA Gordon <ilana_at_wordwizardsinc.com>wrote:
> Does anybody remember a bathhouse called Venezua that had lockers and
> showers? My great uncle Jacob Gedaky owned it?
> Ilana
>
> Sent from my iphone
>
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