[Cz-L] Memories

Lydia, this is for you.

Memories,
August 2010, I wanted to visit my grandmother’s house.

I called a taxi to take me to the house. The taxi arrived and the driver said “kuda” (where) and I said “Prinyat mene dom moye babushka, na ulitze Kosmodemianskoy”, (take me to my grandmother’s house in Kosmodemianskoy street). He starts driving and we pass the Rusischegasse but he drives the wrong way. I tell the driver “vidite eto dom, eto gde ya rodidiltza” (you see this house, this is where I was born). I tell the driver turn around and drive strait to my grandmother’s house without detours as I know this city and that I am not a tourist. We arrive at the house, I knock and the door is opened by young lady, she asks me what I want; I tell her that I would like to see the interior of the house as this house use to be my grandmother’s house. She tells me that it is impossible; she tells me that the house belongs to her own grandmother. I tell her OK, I have no desire of taking this house away from you and all that I want, is to
 see the inside of the house. My taxi driver tells her to let me in and that he does not see a problem. She lets me in, I walk in to the kitchen, gone is the “pripicheck” the place where my father and I used to sleep on top during the cold Czernowitzer winters and where my grandmother used to cook and bake those fabulous meals.
Gone are the beautiful curtains and the old furniture. I thank the lady and she takes me to the door, and as I say goodbye, it clicks; I ask the lady if I can also see the cellar. She wants to know why and I say just for old times. The cellar was the place where my grandmother kept her wood for heating and cooking; also her (Vorräte)provisions like potatoes, onions, jars of pickles, the sauerkraut and her jars of schmaltz. We walk down the few steps, I walk over to the wooden column which is in the middle of the cellar and there it is my name which I carved before leaving Czernowitz in 1945. I show this to the lady, and tell her, you see it is my name “ARTUR”

Arthur

PS It was Artur without the H, the way it was written in Czernowitz at that time.
Please do not correct my Russian.

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