Re: [Cz-L] Refreshing memory

From: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:29:17 +0200
To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, Anny Matar <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
Reply-to: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>

Mimi,
  So you have met 5 nice people . Lets make it 10.
  Out of 280,000.
    You come with your story time and again.
      This does not make your point any stronger.
   To deduct from this that there is no antisemitism in Cz.
   is far - fetched extrapolation.
     You are also treated as a tourist.
    I have spoken to people who live there and they state
     differently.
        So let us drop it.
          Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>; "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "E. & G. Weissmann" <EGWeissmann_at_gmx.net>; "Czernowitz Genealogy and
History digest" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Refreshing memory

> Anny wrote about my interactions with the current residents of Chernivtsi:
>> I am so glad that your meetings with them is that laudable.
> I would like to give three examples of my interaction with the local
> people:
>
> 1) In the summer of 2009, while I was in Chernivtsi, a photograph taken at
> the Jewish cemetery appeared on a local website and was sent to us by
> Hardy.
> I recognized that the photograph had been taken in the last few days, with
> Hardy's help contacted the webmaster of the local website, who helped me
> contact the man who had taken the photograph. His name is Sasha and we
> arranged to meet. When we met, I asked him, if he would be willing to
> occasionally take photographs of specific areas of the cemetery. He
> readily
> agreed. I then asked him whether I could reciprocate the favor in any way.
> He did not want me to do him any favors, pay him or do anything else for
> him. The two or three times I later asked him to take photographs, he
> always
> did and when I asked for 2 - 3 photographs, not wanting to burden him, he
> sent me many more.
>
> 2) During the war years my family and I lived in a small apartment, in
> what
> was essentially a one family house, with an additional attic apartment and
> a
> basement apartment.
> In 2003, on my first visit to Czernowitz, after an absence of 58 years,
> our
> guide and translator, Zoya Danilovich, my husband Milton and I, were
> standing in front of the house in which I had lived. A man was doing
> something in the front yard. Seeing us standing and gazing at the house,
> he
> came over and asked what we were interested in. When told that I had once
> lived in the house, he asked in which apartment. It turned out that he was
> living in the same apartment in which I had lived. He immediately asked us
> in, showed me the apartment and was eager to help me compare what I
> remembered with the changes he had made.
> This summer, Arthur and I were standing in front of the same house, when a
> young man came over and asked if he could help us. Again, I explained that
> I
> had once lived in the house. This man did not live in the same apartment,
> but because the day was hot, he invited us to his mothers apartment, she
> gave us cold water to drink and allowed us to use the toilet.
>
> 3) In 2006, I went with other Czernowitzers to the village of Davidivka,
> previously Davideni, were my paternal grandfather was born. His father had
> owned the local store. Once in Davidivka, I realized that the village was
> so
> small, that it probably had only had, one store. Our guide asked some men
> standing by the road, where the village store had once been. They readily
> pointed to a nearby house. I approached the house, curious to see the
> exterior and the garden. But the owners invited me to come in, showed me
> the
> whole house and then offered me a glass of fresh milk from their own cow.
> They knew that I was Jewish, because I had told them so, but they were
> very
> friendly and with the aide of our guide and translator, we had a short but
> very pleasant conversation.
>
> Davidivka is located very close to Banila on the Siret, where in 1941,
> took
> place one of the most hideous murders of 15 Jews, residents of the
> village.
> I do not know whether the grandparents of the people I met in Davidivka
> participated in this murder, but even if they did, I do not blame the
> grandchildren for the deeds of the grandparents.
> At the same time, I will not forget what I read about this murder, nor
> would
> I forgive those who perpetrated it.
>
> On another subject; we visited the Jewish cemetery in Banila and to our
> astonishment found that some of those buried there, were not Jewish.
> Does anyone have an explanation for this?
>
> Mimi
>
>
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