Memories of winter at home have many facets for me. I remember one beautifu=
l
winter night going in a sleigh. Nothing, I know of, is quieter than snow.
Snow flakes flying settling on your nose and hair, covering all the slush
and dirt on the houses making everything look as though being covered in a
white blanket -peaceful, silence - and then we heard another sleigh with
those million bells sounding and breaking the silence with heavenly
sounds. This happened 1933,( just few years ago?) but the memory never
vanished; maybe because my father died in Sept.1934 it remained so vivid.
Winter meant ice skating!!! Walking through the snow filled Volksgarten,
snow shining in the moonlight like billion diamonds and the air!!!
Fresh/cold, wearing Faustlinge over woolen gloves, pullovers, coat,
Stirnband over Stirn und Ohren, freezing but sooo beautiful Coming in from
the ice-skating rink into the wooden shed with a stove in the middle and ho=
t
Himbeersaft!!!! Heaven on earth.
Coming home we had a cheminee, half tiled oven, well heated. I sat down on
that stove and warmed my coldest parts....
THEN CAME THE WAR!!!
No wood for heating, no going out at night, no thought of having fun all
erased. Mother had a Wunder-Ofen where she could bake over a primus. That
heated??? my room. All the flowers were on the windows and no cushion
between the windows could keep the icy cravatul (crvaetzul) the icy winds
from the north, out of the room. There was one place to feel warm but the
bed covered with a featherbed (Tuchend) one hand under, the other holding
the book and then changing over. Cold, always cold nowhere to really warm
up.These are my winter memories. Hardy once sent a picture of a woman
selling flowers and I reacted looking at her frozen hands. When I came to
Israel my hands got blue in winter and my legs were blue too. It took a yea=
r
or more to get the frost out of me.
I feel ashamed writing this because my thoughts are always with those who
were in Transnistria and camps in Germany.
anny
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Abraham Kogan <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>wro=
te:
> It should be antworte and not Antworte (it is a verb).
> Abraham K.
>
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