10-3-09
Dear Ms. Matar,
Your stories are always fascinating. Have you considered writing a book?
Can you please tell me what the abbreviation GPU stands for.
Thank you,
Gary Rogovin
-------------- Original message from Anny Matar <annymatar_at_gmail.com>: --------------
> Dear all,
> It seems some memories are with us all our lives they can't be erased nor
> can they be forgotten.
> My mother's Austro-Hungarian heart was so convinced, after the "uneducated"
> "nightmarish" Russian occupation nothing worse can ever happen
> she was soon proven wrong.
> My mother's second marriage with Max Gelband made us Kapitalists again and
> we had one year of pure hell. Although I could still go to school,
> homecoming was a nightmare of fear until the day the deportation started. It
> was on a Friday, that I remember well, because my mother was preparing to
> bake the Challeh, I went to school, my step-father went out, we had moved to
> my mother's sister (naive as we were) hoping that it was a good hiding
> place, which of course it wasn't.
> I was informed through the Y.P.A. (Yidishe Plotke Agentur- much faster means
> of communication than email - that the Black Maria was in front of our
> house. I knew my mother and my aunt were alone at home so I ran, knowing
> that whatever happens I'll be with my mother. When I came home ran up the
> stairs, finger on the bell, that was the moment my aunt said to the Russians
> in a loud German voice: "Am I sewn on to my sister? I have no idea where she
> is." I ran away as fast as I could not comprehending where mother was-there
> was no second exit from the flat!!! I sat through classes ( as a good girl
> should) my friends dind't let me go back so I went to friends until the YPA
> information I may see Mamma. What happened was that mother, a
> "mathematician" thought of a way out. Being 1.71 tall if she didn't throw
> herself out but let herself glide down the wall of the window leading to the
> back yard, (about 2 and a half times her size) she'll be able to run through
> our back yard to some friends. Well she landed a bundle of bones and had to
> be taken to the Jewish Hospital in the Jewish Quarter.
> Father meanwhile was hidden by relations who had farms in Rosh (Rosi), he
> slept out,(I was hidden by friends and slept in beds or floors every night
> with another NON Kapitalist family) and after a while couldn't do it any
> longer and gave himself up. While waiting in an assembly hall for the next
> transport overnight he cried. A young man beside him asked why, and when he
> told him his sad tale, the boy said: I can write Russian let's try, nothing
> to lose. They "borrowed" some toilette paper and a "Tintenstift". The
> boy/man wrote his tale and asked to be allowed for his wife -who is under
> GPU supervision- to join him and that we can travel together -he guaranteed
> to bring me too. Just as they were closing the heavy carriage doors of the
> train, his name was called and at ZERO hour he was saved and so was I. That
> was the last transport, On the morning the Germans came mother was brought
> home on the day
> min war in Cti, started.
> We all carry a war package but the wrapping is different, it seems.
> Happy days, Hag Sameach,
> anny
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