Re: [Cz-L] 30 January 1933: Machtergreifung - Seizure of Power

Dear Mimi,

I find your comments very interesting : in my family we also
had the same questions !!!
When my mother came home once, and told her parents that
"now it's the right moment to leave Czernowitz", the answer
was : "are you crazy ? we did build our own house and you
want us to leave the house ???". They could not imagine what
was going to happen !!!!
Best regards.
Lydia.

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From: <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 5:42 PM
To: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
Cc: "Czernowitz Discussion Group" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] 30 January 1933: Machtergreifung - Seizure of Power

>
> I have often wondered how my parents and their friends and relatives were
> so blind to the looming danger. It was not until 1939 that my parents
> started looking into the possibility of immigrating to a safe country.
> Life in Czernowitz was still good, despite the institutionalized
> discrimination instigated by the Romanian government. I think that many
> Jewish Czernowitzers were firm believers in an ideal civilized and
> egalitarian future.
> They believed in the transforming virtues of education, science and
> technology.
> They had been brought up on Goethe and Schiller, they listened to Mozart
> and sang the songs of Schubert, it was inconceivable to them that
> civilized countries would engage in mass murder.
>
> Mimi

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