Fw: [Cz-L] Retreat 1944

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hedwig Brenner" <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>
To: "frieda tabak" <frieda_tabak_at_yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Retreat 1944

> Hi Frieda Tabak, excuse me, but the Liliengasse had nothing to do with the
> Hauptstrasse, it was the Rathhausstrasse which had connection to the
> Liliengasse...
> Best wishes Prosit Neujahr 2010! Hedwig Brenner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "frieda tabak" <frieda_tabak_at_yahoo.com>
> To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Retreat 1944
>
>
>> Thist post brought back a memory.
>>
>> My parents, my brother and were sharing an apartment with my uncle, Dr
>> Salo Koffler, in an apartment building that had an entrance on
>> Liliengasse as well as on Hauptstrasse. It was anarchy. The Nazis were
>> retreating, the Soviets had no arrived yet.
>>
>> Suddenly there was a noise at our door. The door was kicked in, and five
>> or six Vlassovtzy walked in. "Oh, a nest of Jews", they said in
>> Ukrainian. "No, we are not Jews" my uncle said, "look at the books, they
>> are in german" as my aunt handed them her handbag.
>>
>> My family was pretty fair skinned, my 4 year old brother (Stanley
>> Wishner) had blonde hair. I, however, at thirteen had dark long braids.
>> "OK, the Vlassovtzy said, you may not be Jewish but she (pointing at me )
>> definitely is". My mother somehow managed to push me out the door; and to
>> this day I cannot remember where I went or when I came back. I do
>> remember spending the rest of the anarchic days at my mother's cousin,
>> Mia Hassner, who lived on the Herrengasse, I think, and I remeber seeing
>> fires all over Czernowitz as we were walking there.
>>
>> I would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and peaceful Secular New
>> Year
>>
>> Frieda

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