Re: [Cz-] the Atlit Story from Anny Matar...

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Behind barbed wire in Atlit detention camp,
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
To: "czernowitz-L" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Cc: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 3:22 AM
Subject: [Cz-] the Atlit Story from Anny Matar...

> Below is a piece Anny Matar wrote in response to an article in the
> Jerusalem Post about the camp at Atlit . She sent me a copy and I'm
> passing it to you before I file it in the 'Stories, Histories...'
> section on the website. This way, I hope that everyone will get a chance
> to read it. Some of you, I am sure, will be able to relate to it in a
> very personal way. The editing mistakes are mine.
> jerome
>
> Anny writes:
>
> I come from a town called Czernowitz in the Bukovina (once northern
> Rumania).
>
> In 1940 Hitler gave Stalin at the signing of their "peace agreement"
> our part of Rumania as "a gift".
>
> In 1941 Hitler attacked Stalin and took his "gift" back.
>
> For the Russians we were capitalists and a minute away from
> deportation to Sibiria, which we escaped by a miracle, for the Germans
> we were Jews = Ghetto. For the first time in my life behind barbed
> wire with German and Rumanian soldiers guarding, willing to murder any
> wrongdoing by those in the "zoo". Later came deportation to
> Transnistria.
>
> People were strangely naive thinking that those who went first will have
> "better housing than the latecomers". For us, again a miracle, a man
> named Trajan Popovici, supplied us with papers which allowed us to stay
> in town; we could not return to our home as it wasnow occupied by
> Germans with all we had left behind when going intothe ghetto, but, we
> were free!!

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