Fw: [Cz-L] another Czernowitz memory

Sorry for misspelling donor...

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From: "Lucca" <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>; "'CZERNOWITZ-L'"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:12 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] another Czernowitz memory

> During the second Russian occupation, we had to get military training. our
> trainer, a former Maccabi gym teacher by the name of Stanger, I am sure
> many Czernowitzers remember him, he was quite a personality, held the
> pertaining classes. They were called "Voyenna Potgotovka" One day he
> brought gas masks to the class and distributed them to the students, one
> gas mask to every student.
> We looked at the weird things and didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
>
> My friend Clara and I were always up to mischief. So we decided to play a
> trick on Stanger. I took my gas mask and wrapped it beautifully in some
> better-looking paper (hard to come by and greatly cherished) and attached
> a note saying:
> "We don't need this, we return it with thanks to the doner!"
>
> Finding this package on his desk, Stanger was quite disconcerted. He
> looked around the class and somehow his eye fell on me. Did I look guilty?
> I don't know. I only know that on the same afternoon he appeared in my
> home, knocked on the door and said:
> "Lucca I need your gas mask, I must demonstrate something to another
> class!"
>
> Can you imagine my situation? I started to stutter and said to him that my
> gas mask was at Clara's house. Fortunately Clara lived some way off and it
> would be a hassle for him to go thereso, he didn't feel like following up
> on the story. In the evening Clara and I stole into the school and
> retrieved the gas mask from Stanger's room. We had to look for it because
> he had hidden it in the closet.
>
> I have a photo with dear Mr. Stanger, maybe I will scan it and send it
> over.
>
> I still shiver when I remember this!
> Lucca
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