Re: [Cz-L] Re: Andy Halmay's attitude to Czernowitz/Chernivtsi

Hi Andy,
you know me, we exchanged some e-mails, once upon the time. I was born in
Czernowitz, on the end of WW! and lived 17 years there, until after my bac,
I went for studies to Vienna and Geneve and returned to Vienna the 12 march
1938 when the nazi-army entered Vienna, I returned to Cz., married, went for
a year to the oil-fields and returned for 3 days with my husband the 25 june
1940 to take our mothers to Romania, the frontiers were shot. So we lived
with the Sovjets, than in the ghetto, were not deported because my husband,
engeneer was taken to slave labour, but in the beginning of the roumanian
rule, we were arrested, and a week after that, all the jewish man of our
street were taken by SS to be executed..a german officer from the
"Luftwaffe"saved my husband, if you are interested I will tell you why ...he
was a classmate at the "Deutsche Technische Hochschule, Prague, but how I
found him, it is a "Sipur"( this is one of some hebrew words I now, I am
ashamed)
The NKGB had also some joke with us..Stella, the wife of Traian was a friend
of my mother in law, I have in my photo-archiv her photo with a dedication
for Paula Brenner....In 1945 we left Czernowitz, and stayed in Romania until
1982, when we made the allyiah...A "resumee" of a life story of 92,and a
half...
If you want more, come to Haifa, to pay me a visit, but...it depends on fate
if....
Happy Passover Hedwig
----- Original Message -----
From: "andy halmay" <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 7:55 PM
Subject: Fw: [Cz-L] Re: Andy Halmay's attitude to Czernowitz/Chernivtsi

>
> In general, Mimi, I can't disagree with you. Our perceptions and
> attitudes are
> complex and formed by a multitude of inputs, more, I would guess, by our
> immediate environment, family, schoolmates and co-workers, than by the
> larger
> community. Most communities and cities have no personality these days.
> The
> larger the cities, the less they can be defined. Only in minuscule
> villages can
>
> we find distinct character.
>
>
> Some time back someone, probably Hardy, posted a snapshot of a goat herder
> with
> a few goats coming up Herrengasse, whatever they call it now. If that
> shot had
> been taken in Paris or London or even New York, I would have had a great
> laugh
> but because it was in Cz, I shook my head sadly and said to myself,
> "That's what
>
> it has come down to."
>
> I can't even explain to myself this difference in attitude; perhaps
> because Cz
> was part of my family and suddenly I run into a cousin who is reduced to a
> level
>
> way beneath what I perceived the rest of us to have been at.
>
> If you categorize Popovici as a product of Cz then you and I are also
> products
> of Cz and yet we are all very different. His father was a priest who beat
> Traian
>
> severely if he felt his son stepped out of line. Your father didn't beat
> you
> and neither did mine me. Thus none of us can be perceived to be products
> of the
> same community.
>
>
[snip]
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