Compared with what we took with us, what we left behind is unimportant.
Our memories and customs, we can share with our children and grandchildren.
We could not have shared the houses and the schools.
Mimi
Quoting HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>:
> What have we taken with us when we left Cz. ?
> Our memories :
> The language,
> The songs,
> The customs,
> The superstitions.
> What have left behind ?
> The flat,
> The house,
> The street,
> The school,
> The cemetery.
>
> On my visit to Cz. I knocked on the door of the flat where I lived
> and after some time a weak voice asked : "Kto tze ?" or something
> similar meaning : "Who's that ? "
> I explained as good as I could who
> I was and all I wanted was to have a short look ,and that I lived all
> my childhood in that flat- I did this in German and faulty Russian
> and after a long pause, again that faint voice : "Kto tze ?".
> Frustrated I left the place not before noticing the carving in the
> doorsill which read F B for Fredy Breier ,my elder brother who used
> to carve on anything wooden.
> I took a picture.
> Here it is:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vJGC_FjXWXqrPxDVSTBKkA?feat=directlink
> Hardy
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