Re: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse and the Jewish Museum in Chernivtsi

 "Those were not the people that hurt us."
your mother said :
  And I say :
    " And the people who hurt us were friendly , nice people before that".
Hardy
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse and the Jewish Museum in
Chernivtsi

I grew up in the USA and have not ever visited Czernowitz. My mother,
Pearl Spiegel Fichman, did grow up there and her writings about that
period of her life (1920-47) are familiar to some of you. She said that
when she visited Germany to be at the opening of a play she
participated in, a play based on Selma Meerbaum Eisinger's life and
writing, she found the German people she met very kind, gracious and
welcoming. These were shockingly forgiving words for me to hear from
her lips, since she and my father had told me stories about
anti-Semitism in Europe over all the years our lives overlapped. My
mother said of the German people she met on that trip, "Those were not
the people that hurt us."

Eytan

Eytan Fichman, AIA
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
Hai Phong, Viet Nam

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