Re: [Cz-L] Memories

Hi All,
 Grimm's Frau Holle was also known in its Rumanian version : Baba Dochia,
  or Babe Zdokie like my Grandmom used to say in Yiddish.
Hardy
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Subject: [Cz-L] Memories

> Dear all,
> To read your sad memories, softened by the passing of years, it is
> almost as if one had been there, without feeling the fear and terror at
> first hand.
> It also makes one miss the years of your youth, when Czernowitz was a
> beautiful place to grow up in, surrounded by gentle fields and mountains.
> What cornucopia of memories, sharing them, is a great treasure for our
> Ehpes as well.
> I see some parallell to my youth in Bucharest, but it was post-war and
> things were of course much different. I do remember the boys playing
> football with buttons or with a ball made of cloth, incredible
> conditions compared to our pampered youth of today.However, it did
> develop creativity and phantasy.
> I also remember being afraid of the policeman standing sometimes at the
> corner of the street, looking at the passers-by. Afraid, without reason.
> Maybe instinctively, because of my parents being wary of uniforms.
> By the way, Mimi, it is Frau HOLLE who shakes the pillow out of the
> window and then it snows on earth. This is from the Grimm stories. Maybe
> you had another
> book based on Grimm. In my childhood in bucharest I only had Grimm's
> stories in the Gothic alphabet - I had to struggle with the letters, but
> it was worth it.
> By the way, Berlin is now covered in snow, dreamy, white and clean.
> Frau Holle has been busy.
> A happy New Year 2010 to all of the List members.
> Gabriele
>
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>
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