Re: [Cz-L] Gran-son of Rabbi Mark

From: Lucca <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:09:23 +0200
To: Hedwig Brenner <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>, Abraham Kogan <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>, Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Reply-to: Lucca <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>

Ilan Mark and his lovely wife Ilka, joined us for the first and only return
trip to Czernowitz in 1996. The group started out from Frankfurt through
Austria by bus. Our guide was the capable Anna Wiesmeyer.
We arrived in Czernowitz one early morning and rode up the Neuweltgasse to
our hotel the Cheremosh. Next day Ilan asked me and my husband whether we
would like to join him for a visit at his father's, Dr. Mark's, mass grave.
>From the whole group we were only four who hailed a taxi. We started out on
a very grey and rainy day, just like our mood. The driver had trouble
finding the place and we stopped several times thinking that we had arrived
but we still hadn't found the site.

We finally did. We stood there silently, Ilan lit a candle and said kadish.
The rain was falling and so were our tears.we shivered and not only from the
cold.
At that place we felt entirely one not only with the Mark family but with
all of the people of Czernowitz and our common tragic past.

My husband and I were invited afterwards to the Mark's home somewhere in the
vicinity of Tel-Aviv, I don't remember exactly where. We were joined by
Anita Loewy, Regina and Heini, i don't remember their last names, but also
old time Czernowitzers. We had a pleasant lunch in a restaurant and
exchanged memories.
Ilka and Ilan are both gone now.
Lucca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hedwig Brenner" <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>
To: "Abraham Kogan" <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Gran-son of Rabbi Mark

> Hi Abraham,
> The Chief Rabby Dr.Mark was a close friend of my father in law,
> Prof.Dr.Ephraim Brenner and his sons the friends of my husband, Dr.Mark
> officiated also our wedding in march 1939.
> They had 4 children.The eldest son, Erich, ingeneer,studied in Bukarest,
> lived after the war in Israel, paid us a visite in Ploiesti with his
> wife, Magolit
> The second son, Fredy, in my age, studied in Prag, was surprised by the
> german invasion and nobody knows how and where he perished.
> The third child was Hertha, she married Dr.Hassner
> (Not Gassner), she was younger than me..I don't know when and where she
> died, there were roumors that she suicided.
> The youngest son, Ilan, lived in Israel, I knew him in Czernowitz, but
> never saw him here in Israel, we made very late the Allyia.
> The brother of Dr.A.Mark , Dr.Menachem Mark,
> was Chief Rabby in Ploiesti, after the war. We were friends with him and
> his wife, Maud, a layer at the Rabbinath, and they had three sons, When we
> lived immediatly after the war in Boldesti, a little settlement in the oil
> fields, 14 km from Ploiesti, they paid us visits and the whole village
> whispered" to ing Brenner is coming the Jewish Priest"...we were the only
> jewish family in the village...In the photo-archive I found a
> street-picture from Bukarest: my husband with Erich and Fredy Mark, after
> my return from Berlin, I will sent it to Merle
> Memories...
> Hag Sameah
> Hedwig
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