Re: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: October 05, 2010

Andy
I am amazed at how acts of erasures are being explained and excused.
Antisemitism is a multifaceted evil.

It can be violent or very subtle. Jews have lived in Czernowitz for hundred of
years and beside building the city that
is now,contributing to the culture and life to make it a unique place to live.
I am aware the Ukrainean are the new owner who were given this place. It was a
pacific transfer not a war conquest.One should
not disregard the past, one should not erase a people that nurtured the city to
what it is now.
It pleases me that there are people who defend their rights disregarding the
need to be equitable.
They erected a statue to an Austrian Royalty but nothing for the thousand of
Jews who perished except a modest little plaque
that was attache to a wall tarnished and easily overlooked
You should bear the Temple in your view and mind to give you an idea of violence
and desecration a reminder,

that all is not necessarily well in paradise
Fred.Weisinger

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From: veni vici <venivici_at_inbox.com>
To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Wed, 6 October, 2010 11:43:37 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: October 05, 2010

Re: Fred Weisinger's comments on the Chernivtsis erasing the Jewish history of
Cz.  This is not anti-Semitism per se but a sad yet natural occurrence among
living species from animals peeing on trees and fire hydrants to establish THEIR
domain to the rewriting of history over and over again by new generations of
historians. 

Don't you remember that we discovered when we struggled to get approval for the
Popovici plaque that the town fathers had made great efforts to wipe out from
history the two decades of Romanian rule.  Some of their kids in schools were
not at all aware of the previous Romanian presence.  For historical survival, a
people need to leave behind outrageous acts which always make interesting
reading and thus survive the constant evolution and fictionalization of
history.  Had our forefathers produced a Vlad Tepes Dracula and impaled a few
enemies down the street from the Synagogue, or if among our grandfathers there
had been a Genghis Kahn then the present generation in Chernivtsi would have
paid more attention.

Andy Halmay

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