Re: [Cz-L] Cold in Czernowitz

Hello Anny, you description of the winter before the war woke up more or
less the same story I heard from my mother and had completely
 forgotten I also remember my father telling us how the kids used to tie
wooden bars to their boots in order to be able to skate on the ice.
By the way you comment on the hot himbersaft made me remember rais mit
schemten und kreimshnitte. Do they ring a bell?.
Regards Isidoro

El 31/10/10 11:27, "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com> escribió:

>
> 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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