RE: [Cz-L] Schalom, ich bin Mentsh & Bukovina Style!

Anny...the big Menorah in the Ringplatz is not exactly a way of hiding their
Jewishness...and for that matter neither is the Jewish Museum,the opening of
a 2nd shul,the memorial at the Tuerkenplatz etc etc. And on all my many
visits to Czernowitz I not once met any anti-Semitism. I am sure there is
some...but there is some in many places. Finally,why are so many Ukrainians
on the Righteous Gentiles list at Yad V_at_shem???? Cornel

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[mailto:bounce-39058254-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Anny Matar
Sent: 24 December 2011 12:21
To: Charles Rosner
Cc: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Schalom, ich bin Mentsh & Bukovina Style!

Hi all,
I viewed the video today only and so I feel I have to add my thoughts too.
I was surprised how very few anti Semitic remarks were made. Many feel that
the Jews being gone, Cz. has changed, much work lost - the Jews were bread
givers - and the market women remarked how much better they had it with the
generous Jews whose doctors treated them and they earned much better
because, as they say, their own are stingy. One can't expect that all
should love us and of course, tigers never change their spots, THEY DID NOT
LOVE US, while we were there. Politics were too strong and to have shown
compassion would have been suicide.
As for the Rabbis: German Jews became Juden Mosiaschen Glaubens - Germans
of Mosaic belief- and they were more Germans than the Germans and they
married German women. Some, with Hitler's grandparents had never known that
their great-grandmother had not been Christians at birth.
 What the Communists thought of us we well know although so many Jews WERE
communists and either marriage was not asked for or inter-marriage had no
meaning,
  So many Jews became Communists because it seemed better than Zionism
because Zionism is sooo Jewish!! Everyone needed an ideology a bright
light at the end of the tunnel in which you live.
Jews assimilate wherever they are to become one with their surrounding a
Jew never provoked. It was they who kept us in Ghettos so, in order to
escape this, we assimilated and felt that we have become part of the whole.
The Jew has always been hated wherever they was but, once they were gone
they were missed. That small community in Cz. what can one expect? where
can they find husbands? or wives? Those Jews who "geben sich nischt zu
derkennen"?
( don't want to be identified) had also tried to hide the Yellow Star they
were escapists trying to hide who they were. As long as we were such a
large number we mixed with each other, we had no problem but today? why
stick out?
It's tragic but understandable.
anny
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