Re: [Cz-L] Yellow Star in Czernowitz

Dear Alfred,

Thank you for sharing these beautiful thoughts with all of us. I, who also =
experienced that indignity, will share your letter with all my American fri=
ends as well as with audiences to whom I speak of my experiences.

Gratefully,

Frieda Tabak

--- On Thu, 9/1/11, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Yellow Star in Czernowitz
To: "ALFRED SCHNEIDER" <asfred_at_comcast.net>, "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_c=
ornell.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 12:05 AM

Dear Alfred,

I am deeply touched by your letter to your son, about the yellow star,
we were forced to wear. Thank you for sharing this letter with us.

Because I read your letter, I would like to write to this group of
Czernowitzers, what I have never written or told to anyone before.

I was only 4 years old when we were forced to start wearing this mark of ou=
r
identity. I do not remember the first time it was pinned on my coat.
But I remember very clearly the exact shade of yellow of the fabric.
Despite the many years which have passed since then, I have not been able
to get over the deep shame and hurt, which the wearing of this badge arouse=
d
in me. To this day and despite knowing that we suffered far worse abuse,
this is the one indignity, to still make me burst into floods of tears.

Mimi

On 8/31/11 9:28 PM, "ALFRED SCHNEIDER" <asfred_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> The recent correspondence on Cz-L about the Yellow Star prompts me to sha=
re
> with you a very personal letter I wrote to my son sixteen years ago. I th=
ink
> it may be of interest to Czernowitzers and their descendents to glean int=
o
> the thoughts and emotions of a teenager in Czernowitz at the time of its
> worst tragedy and to learn what this symbol came to represent during the
> subsequent seven decades of his life.
>=20
> The letter is posted on
>=20
> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/stories/fschneider-letter/star.html
>=20
> and can also be reached from the Home Page of the Ehpes Menu -> Stories,
> Histories...-> Item #37a.
>=20
> Alfred (Fred) Schneider
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