Re: [Cz-L] short story

Dear Paul,

> I received mail from a recent member if I am his
> father¹s old friend, who lived in the Balschgasse

I used to live and grew up in Balschgasse 9.
Who is this friend?

Henry

On 3/8/11 1:56 PM, "Paul Heger" <pheger_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello to all members
> I would like to tell in short an extraordinary emotional event I
> experienced recently, thanks to our blog. I had a school friend in
> Czernowitz of the same age; we studied together on the same class in
> L. 3, called in earlier time Das Juedische Gymnasium, which we still
> used. He lived in the Franzosgasse and he had to cross the
> Balschgasse, where I lived, on his way to the school, and thus we
> often went together, also to defend ourselves against the attacks of
> the children from the German Orphanage who also crossed the
> Balschgasse in their way to their school in the Althgasse. I short, we
> were intimate friends. After my emigration to Palestine in April 1940
> and the events in Europe I lost track of him, and often thought where
> could he be. It seems that he had the same thoughts, as we shall see
> from the development of the story. Last week I answered on the blog a
> question about procuring a Czernowitz Birth Certificate from Ukraine,
> and the next day I received mail from a recent member if I am his
> father¹s old friend, who lived in the Balschgasse and studied with him
> in the L. 3. I confirmed it and asked whether his father still lives
> and when I received his answer with phone number in New York, I could
> not wait until my Israel time concurred with an appropriate time in NY
> to call him. Without telling hi, my name, I just asked him if he knows
> who is calling, he said my name. I cannot describe the joy we
> experienced, but you can imagine it. As it happens I will be in NY for
> one day in April and we shall meet and embrace one each other after 71
> years!
>
> This story demonstrates the importance of our organization, but at the
> same time raised the question why are we not organizing occasionally
> some meetings of members, living in the same city or near
> surroundings. Exchanges of memories could potentially result in
> emotional experiences as I had.
>
> Paul Heger
>
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