Re: [Cz-L] Refreshing memory

I can only wish that the world read Martin Buber.
While my husband was working for ElAl 1962 - 68 in Germany, except for
terrible nightmares I also had a chance to meet Germans. One of them said to
me: Time has come to forgive and forget. I answered that I could do neither.
He looked at me and said: We paid for our deeds??My answer was: Is the
Wiedergutmachung (restitution) blood money?? Do you think money compensates
that?? I never took nor will I ever take it!!!! ME YOU CAN'T PAY. I NEVER
EVER TOUCHED THAT!!!
On the other hand there were lots of German youngsters doing their
Suehnenarbeit (forgiveness) work in Israel in 1976.The war came. My husband
worked nights I worked days and there were many parents, Germans, who came
to the office asking us to send Telexes to Israel for their children to come
home, they ALL refused!!! That was then.... today???
As our Ambassador to the U.N. said: Were we to have a vote for the creation
of a Jewish State today, I doubt we'd have one!!!! Times change and if
anyone thinks that peace with the Palestinians would solve the Jewish
problem??? boy you're wrong!!!
anny

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On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Julian Rubin <julianrubin2000_at_yahoo.com>wrote:

> Eduard, you are totally right, I don't have anything to add.
>
> Julian Rubin
> The author of The Orchid Grower
> A juvenile science adventure novel
> From Zumaya Publications
> www.julianTrubin.com <http://www.juliantrubin.com/>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 10/8/10, E. & G. Weissmann <EGWeissmann_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > From: E. & G. Weissmann <EGWeissmann_at_gmx.net>
> > Subject: [Cz-L] Refreshing memory
> > To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History digest" <
> czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> > Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 10:39 PM
> > Dear all,
> > While reading the contributions of some list members I feel
> > directly addressed and would like to make a point.
> > The attempt to compare the fate of Poles; Romanians;
> > Ukraineans and many other nations with the destiny of the
> > Jewish nation is
> > misleading and naive. While the above-mentioned
> > nations fought eternal wars for supremacy, the Jewish nation
> > was the only one to
> > be confronted with total extinction. A small but decisive
> > difference. In the ill-famed Wannsee conference, the
> > leadership of Nazi-Germany proclaimed the"Final Solution"of
> > the Jewish people. Never in history did any nation proclaim
> > the total anihilation of an enemy nation - and they almost
> > succeeded. By the way, all the above mentioned nations
> > participated actively in the Holocaust.
> >
> > We should keep that in mind, forgive, but never forget.
> > Martin Buber, in his story about Baal Shem-Tov describes a
> > discussion the great rabbi had with his zaddikim. When asked
> > to give a definition of
> > Messiah, the redeemer, he thought for a while and gave a
> > wise answer: I don't know what Messiah is, but am convinced
> > that the way to
> > Messiah leads through the gate of remembrance.
> > Eduard Weissmann
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