Re: [Cz-L] June 1 in Czernowitz -

It is so wonderful to hear that there is a second generation still so
interested in our sad past. It does seem that as long as the oldies are
around the interest is kept alive.
You can't really see nor can you feel our lives there. It was SO SO rich
just as the earth you have seen. It was rich in art, culture and cities
bustling with social life THAT, I feel, can not be recalled.

I am certain, Steven, you mother enjoyed the Flieder. The city used to be
full of that smell and my mother always filled the flat with it in white and
blue. Songs were written about it -Wenn der weisse Flieder wieder blueht-
(when the white Flieder blooms again) - I don't remember what happens the
but it must be conected to love/spring etc. Keep your contact with the past
alive. All peoples and nations must have a past to be grateful for the
present. Thanks God, our children and you yourselves, know about it by
looking for your roots. You and our children grow up in freedom.
Hag Shavuot Sameach,
anny

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Winters, Stephen <
Stephen.Winters_at_atlantichealth.org> wrote:

> With the guidance of Sergei Bilichenko my wife, Shelly, and I set out to
> find any ghosts possible of her mother's youth in Moisyska-Rudnyki, outside
> of Lvov. We expected nothing.
>
>
>
> Sergei asked and asked until we found her mother's house, the pond, the
> school, the site of their old mill and much more.
>
>
>
> Then he located the site of the Jewish cemetery...we met people and
> confirmed the legend of the town that one righteous Gentile, "Josef
> Vyontsek", saved her mother's family by hiding them in a double walled
> garage. Apparently up until his death, he never spoke of this. One distant
> relative of his did say that "Josef Vyontsek" would say "you'll see, one day
> people will come looking for me".
>
>
>
> The man who brought us to the cemetery knew the names of my wife's family
> who perished. He brought us to the site of the cemetery which to this day
> lays barren, despite the absence of memorial stones or other markers. We
> asked him why no one ever built on this land. He replied "how could we ever
> build on top of these precious bones". Then he pointed to the site where the
> mass grave of those brought one by one from surrounding areas and shot by
> Nazis were buried in a mass grave. The world stopped for a brief moment for
> us!
>
>
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> Sergi then got Shelly a meeting with the mayor, who summoned the town
> attorney and the man responsible for building memorial stones at the
> cemetery. With deep emotion and sensitivity Sergi helped make it possible
> for a substantial memorial stone to be placed at this seemingly lost grave
> site.
>
>
>
> "Everything is illuminated"!
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