Re: [Cz-L] Refreshing memory

Dear Eytan and Abraham, Dear All,

I fully agree with Eytan's message.
Those who tried to murder us, annihilate us, deserve our anger and
condemnation. All others may be anti-Semitic and they may not.
Unless we have proof that people are anti-Semites, let's not accuse them
unfoundedly. No one is responsible for what his grandparents or parents did.
If you subscribe to the opinion, that current residents of Chernivtsi must
be anti-Semites because 65 years ago, or 35 years ago, some of their
co-nationals and co-religionists were, than my writing anything further on
this subject, is a waste of time.

Trying to find fault with my comparisons, or writing that my friendly
encounters with current residents of Chernivtsi are insignificant, do not
prove that in general, the current residents of Chernivtsi are anti-Semitic.
In recent years, I probably have had more contact with Chernivtsi residents,
both non-Jewish and Jewish, than any of you and still I do not share this
opinion.

I will write no more about this subject, because: "Pacat de vorba" and
"Multe vorba ieste saracia omului".
Translation: it is a waste of talking and much talk is the misery of
mankind.

Mimi

On 10/13/10 8:15 AM, "fichblue_at_aol.com" <fichblue_at_aol.com> wrote:

> I only wish my mother was still alive so I could learn how she would
> understand this debate. She spoke so generously about the German people
> who were involved in putting on a play related to Czernowitz's Selma
> Meerbaum Eisinger, as well as about the journalists and spectators that
> she spoke to there. She was able to do this after most of a long life
> committed to never forgetting the atrocities of the Germans and the
> other anti-Semites that collaborated with them . . . I remember my
> father speaking fondly of a non-Jewish neighbor that reached out to
> help him during The War. At the same time he was bitterly hateful of
> the way he and his relatives were victimized during the War. Maybe we
> can all come to assign our bitterness to those who have earned it, and
> to those who are not tainted by anti-Semitism, learn to appreciate
> their humanity.
>
> Eytan Fichman, AIA
> B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
> Hai Phong, Viet Nam
>

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