Re: [Cz-L] wonderful!

Hi All
Just to clear up historical facts. In Czernowitz and few other places the
mass murders ("holocaust by bullets") were performed at one site and the
burial at another site (in this case the cemetery) so there was no question
of the earth moving after the burial. Albeit there were many other places
(one of them is "Baby Yahr" in Kiyev) were the people were ordered to dig a
trench, lined up at it's edge, shot, and fell inside. Nevertheless there
were some who were only wounded so when the trench was covered the earth
above the trench could be seen moving with their breath. There are a few
miraculous cases of people who succeeded to survive by pretending death and
scrambling out at night. These horrible facts are mentioned not provoke
hate, but remind and warn every member of the Human race that - as it is
written in our Bible - evil lays always at our threshold and it it's our
choice to avoid it.
  I wish you all on the coming holidays a happy, healthy, and prosperous new
year SHANA TOVA!
  Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Liss" <joliss_at_comcast.net>
To: <czernowitz-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:56 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] wonderful!

> Hello everyone,
>
> As a list member whose great grandparents are buried in the cemetery, and
> also a member of last year's volunteer group, I am also gratified, as many
> of you have expressed, by all the hard work that Mimi, Christian, Julia,
> and
> so many others have contributed to making this happen and continue.
>
> I have participated in six different volunteer projects around the world,
> all of which have been amazing experiences. But I have never seen the
> continued degree of commitment and work that I have seen in this one. You
> may already know that two of the volunteers from last year, Shannon from
> the
> U.S. and Katia from Germany, have participated again. Katia has decided to
> do her thesis on the cemetery. Also, Marina, a student from Cz. who joined
> us last year after hearing about the project on local TV, participated
> this
> year, along with another local student. Aside from maintaining the
> cemetery
> itself, I feel it is an important goal to have participation from
> Ukrainians. The fact that there were two this year is wonderful.
>
> I also wanted to emphasize, for whatever it is worth, that at least year,
> none of the volunteers beside myself was Jewish. I don't know if this was
> also true this year. They felt interested and committed not because
> maintaining the cemetery was a Jewish issue, but because it was a human
> issue.
>
> One question - last year we were shown a mass grave in the cemetery, and
> told that 900 Jews were murdered and buried there. The wife of the man who
> chain sawed trees last year told one of the volunteers in our group, about
> it. This woman also conveyed the terrible story relayed to her by another
> woman, of seeing the earth above the grave move for several days, because
> people had been buried alive.
>
> When I mentioned this story in this forum months ago, I was told that this
> story was not true. I realize that stories can change, and be embroidered,
> and that something that occurred somewhere can be attributed to a
> different
> place. But now that I am seeing mentions of a Holocaust mass grave again
> on
> this list, I am wondering if there is additional information on this mass
> grave that has been discussed in the last couple of months. I have been
> away, on another volunteer project, have not had easy access to computers,
> and have not been following this list's communications as much as usual.
>
> One last thing, just a comment on all the bonds that participating in a
> project like this can foster: This summer, upon my arrival in Europe, I
> was
> met in Paris by a list member, Anny Chemla. She later invited me to her
> home, along with another member of the list, Sylvie G'Sell. I felt like I
> had already known them although our only contact had been through this
> list.
> Later, I met up with a member of the cemetery group from last year, Sophie
> Aloe. And later still, I went to Germany and stayed at the home of
> Christian Hermann, who had come to Cz. when our group was there last year,
> cooked us wonderful meals, took us to Sadagura, and read us poetry by Paul
> Celan. It was great to see him again and get to know him better, and I
> felt
> an additional link because just after my visit he went back to Czernowitz.
> Thanks for all the hospitality and friendship, Christian Anny, Sylvie,
> Sophie!
>
> Regards, Joanna Liss

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