Re: [Cz-L] Cellars and spiders.

The cellars were dark, cold and damp and smelled of the coal, potatoes,
carrots, cabbages and beets which were stored in them. As a child, I was
afraid of going to the cellar, there might be a bogey-man in the cellar. In
Ukrainian he was called "Bozhe-Bu", or something similar.

The attics were quite different, in the attic was stored old furniture, old
books and apples and pears. The laundry was also hung up to dry there.
In July 1942 when the Romanians were once more deporting Jews from
Czernowitz to Transnistria, we hid in the attic of #6 Slowatckigasse. They
searched the building and deported one of the members of this list, but my
family and I were lucky and were not discovered. It was hot in the attic and
the untreated wood of the roof beams gave off a particular smell, which
mingled with the smell of dust and old books and which ever since, I
associate with attics.

I was 5 years old at the time and one afternoon, wanted to sing to pass the
time faster. Of course, the grownups hushed me up and to a small degree I
understood the seriousness of our situation. Later we heard about a family
in a neighboring attic, who had a young baby. In order to keep the baby
asleep and quiet, they gave it some alcohol. The baby was quiet while the
soldiers were searching the building, but afterwards the parents had trouble
waking the baby. I do not know whether this occurrence had a happy ending or
not.

Mimi

On 11/6/10 9:22 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> http://pics.livejournal.com/whasup/pic/00tekhy7
>
> This was the entry to the Keller - the cellar .
> Nearby lived the Hausmeister , the janitor.
> In the cellar you kept coal, wood , potatoes , ice and gold coins.
> There were also cats and rats and cockroaches that we called
> Kneiper.
>
> You could go into our cellar on the Russischegass' and come
> out
> on the Morariugasse. If you knew how .
> There was no lighting.
> Passing through cellars and attics with creaky
> steps and a lot of spiders and cobweb that we called Povitinye.
> On the way, in one of these attics I greeted my grandfather who
> was a tailor and lived separately and was not allowed
> to visit us because he had a bad cough.
> By-passing the Ghetto gate was no big problem .
> Hardy

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