[Cz-L] Searching for the Dark haired Girl

My father and I returned to Czernowitz from Transnistria in late spring of 1944.
The elders did not know what to do with me; school had summer recess, so they registered me in a Russian kindergarten. The first day there I saw this beautiful dark haired girl, big dark eyes, black eyelashes, I was in love. I could not take my eyes of her; all I did was just stare at her. I never had the courage to talk to her.
In the fall I was registered to go to the Yiddish school in the Sibenburgerstrasse. I waited all day to see if the dark haired girl would show up, but to my disappointment her parents placed her in a Russian school. I knew where she lived; I believe it was a street of the Volksgarten. Going home from school I would always go through that area, just in case I would get a glimpse of her. The last time that I saw her was in 1945 at the border crossing in to Romania; when the Czernowitzer Jews were send back to Romania.

April 1, 1951, we got off the boat the Transylvania in Haifa, Israel. On getting off the boat we got sprayed all over with DDT, my clothes, my hair and my face was white from DDT. Israel did not want to import Romanian lice, fleas bad bugs or mandevoshkes.
We were taken outside the harbor to board a truck which had wooden benched to take us to the absorption center. I looked across the road and there she was my dark haired girl, walking down the street. I told my father that I am going to cross the street to meet this girl; my father did not let me, he told me not to worry, Israel is a small country and that I will meet the girl soon.
I never saw her again.

Zita Kimelman, after all those years, I have not forgotten you, where are you, are you a contributor to the Czernowitzer list?

Arthur Rindner
      
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