Re: [Cz-L] Yellow Star in Czernowitz

Hi all,
Thanks Alfred for the emotiomal letter, everyone, who lived in these years
in Czernowitz, with the changing roulers and changing stars, red, yellow,
red, has his own story...
I can not say that I was ashamed, contrary, I was proud to wear it and I
never hided it..
I remember a story...It was after the deportations, end 1942, when we,my
late husband and me, were going home through the corner
Ringplatz-Herrengasse. There was the only library, also with german books,
german news-papers...the other libraries, jewish, were shut in 1040, there
was outside the shop a table with books...
We take a look on the books, immediatly came out a man
shake the hand of my husband and asked if we would like to buy a book, and
we did not hide our yellow star...and he was not ashamed to shake hand with
a Jew...it was Prof.Pochmarski, a colegue of my late father in low, he knew
my husband too, he did not go with "Heim in's Reich", like others, and he
had a jewish wife...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
To: "Gaby & Mira Rinzler" <grinzler_at_gru.net>
Cc: "ALFRED SCHNEIDER" <asfred_at_comcast.net>; "Czernowitz-L"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Yellow Star in Czernowitz

>
> Dear all,
> I would like to share and add my thanks to Alfred for letting us read this
> personal letter to your son.
> This contact within our small community brings so many memories to life
> and
> it's so great to be able to share them here. I am always grateful for it.
> It is so strange to read Mimi's and Alfred's reaction to the yellow star.
> I
> must have been a "dafke" (how can one translate this into English?
> revolutionary? unconventional? -nothing seems right - ) person all my
> life.
> I come from a non-Zionist home and during the Russian occupation 1940-41 I
> joined an extreme Zionist movement the Betar so, when the yellow star was
> forced upon us I thought of it as a medal, I was chosen to be different,
> distinguished from all others and, as I shared my me memories - which I
> had
> written for my children and grand-children - with you, my star (because I
> looked like a Goyte) was larger than required. I never thought that the
> Germans had the right to take away my dignity.
> Please, don't misunderstand me, I comprehend that feeling and share it
> with
> you, I just added MY reaction to the star. It seems like million years
> later, when I worked as a ground hostess for El Al, I wore a yellow Star
> of
> David on white wings on my jacket and hat and I walked down the Bahnhof
> Str.
> in Zurich....NONE WAS MY EQUAL!!
> By the way those who wore the yellow star hidden were called Taschlers
> (hiding it behind a bag) or Reveristen (those hiding it behind the collar
> of
> their coats). The funniest thing was that those who looked most Jewish
> played this game. Life is often a come-tragedy.
> I hope I didn't tread on any one's toes,
> anny
>
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