Fw: [Cz-L] Cold in Czernowitz

From: Lucca <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:39:33 +0200
To: czernowitz group czernowitz <czernowitz-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Lucca <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucca" <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Cold in Czernowitz

> When I was six two "big" cousins, one 8 the other 10, took me ice skating
> for the first time on the Dr, Rothgasse skating rink They said they would
> be responsible for my safety while my mother would sit there on a bench
> and watch me from afar.
> I was very proud being in the middle, led by my both cousins whom I adored
> (Their names: Benno and Joji Koch, if anybody remembers them) and they
> were proud to be the "teachers".
> However after only a few minutes they got bored with their stumbling
> cousin, and simply left me there in the middle of the rink all alone..
> They sailed away and I sat down on the ice and started to howl.
> Back home I ran a fever and everybody realized that this was the end of my
> skating career.
> At the age of nine, I was taken along by my athletic uncle and aunt (Muziu
> and Riva Tuchmann of Maccabi fame) to Vatra Dornei for my first ski
> adventure. On small skis I moved forward like a turtle with Parkinson
> until I fell into a deep hole.
> I was rescued but again: no ski career for me.
> This was still the time when we had food, heating and carefree days. What
> came later, was a different story.
> Lucca
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
> To: "Abraham Kogan" <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>
> Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "David Glynn"
> <glynn_at_spontini.co.uk>; "czernowitz-l" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Cold in Czernowitz
>
>
>>
>> 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
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