Re: [Cz-L] FW: din ziarul local

Mimi,
  You write:
 "Such a poor miserable stone they erected? And they are not ashamed?"

   Do we evaluate memorial stones by the quality of the material or by
appearance?

Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Emil Hitzig" <emilhg_at_013.net>; "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "'CZERNOWITZ-L'" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] FW: din ziarul local

> For the sake of those who do not know Romanian:
>
> I had written about the commemorative stone erected to the Jewish people
> massacred by Valeriu Carp and his minions:
> Such a poor miserable stone they erected? And they are not ashamed?
> Why only now? Where was the Romanian state for 69 years?
>
> Emil Hitzig answered:
> The state of Romania was during the Ceausescu years, exactly where
> the state of Israel was; namely, it ignored the Holocaust of the Jews of
> Romania, collaborating with the communist regime of Romania, which was
> interested in not being included in the list of criminal states.
> In 1994, I visited the Beit Hatfutzot museum in Tel-Aviv and neither
> Romanian Jewry nor the Holocaust of Romanian Jewry was represented
> anywhere.
> In Israel the monopoly of the Holocaust is in the hands of the Polish
> Jews.
> The same at Yad Vashem and in the press.
> Like in Israel, in Romania, our Holocaust was not discovered until after
> the
> fall of the Ceausescu regime.
>
> All I can say about comparing Israel to Romania, is: "Le-havdil" (Hebrew
> and
> Yiddish: with a difference).
> As to comparing and acknowledging the suffering of various communities;
> this is a subject I do not want to discuss.
>
> Mimi
>
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