Re: [Cz-L] Reminiscences from Anny Matar

Berti dear,
Just because you mention the reception those first immigrants from
Poland received, another picture comes to mind.
As I said I was recalled from Galati to Cz. in Sept.39 and an unforgettable
picture unfolded in front of me. As everyone remembers, there was/is a steep
hill from the train station to the centre of town. As I arrived by train we
took a "fiacker" to bring us home. Our progress was very very slow because
in front of us all the way up the hill there were carts and tired horses
trying to make it up that hill. The progress was step by step. In the carts
were whole families from the "babzie" to the baby surrounded by all their
possessions (hab und gut), all they thought they could need or save from
their past -pillow; blankets;primus; and bags upon bags-. It often was too
much for those horses to drag (schlepp) it up the hill so some men were
pushing the carts and the elderly were walking beside the carts.
The air was, I'm not sure, either drizzling or steaming after the rain. As
long as I live I'll not forget that sight!!! All I said to my parents
was:"Is this why you called me home instead of you coming South??" I didn't
know how soon after our lot will be so similar.
We knew some of them but of course I know nothing about their fate.
Shabbat Shalom,
anny

2009/11/19 berti glaubach <bertigl_at_windowslive.com>

> Another triggered reminiscence,
>
> When those Polish refugees came to Czernowitz (because of the
> Ribbentrop/Molotov pact and the division of their land) it was fashionable
> to have them as guests for a time until they could go on and find another
> country as asilum.
>
> We had a jewish journalist and his daughter for a fortnight- his wife and
> other daughter, for some reason went through the north, I think Sweden and
> they tried to get into contact with them and in the end succeeded.
> Of all possible names his was Stefan Zweig (no relation to the famous
> writer).
>
> They were very cultured people, also spoke German but here I remember the
> different cultural Polish versus Rumanian angle as it manifested itself in
> the domain of cuisine.The girl was a little older than me (about 13), she
> liked my mother's cooking, was enthusiastic about the Vinete (melanzani) she
> had never tried before, but unfortunately had never seen nor eaten those
> black Greek olives served with the vinete and did not know that they had a
> hard kernel inside. The result was a nearly broken tooth.
>
> Wonder how they got around the war in continuation. Is there a chance
> somebody of their family reads our correspondence?
>
> Berti

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