Re: [Cz-L] CBC Radio Documentary: on the air!

Dear Sally and Shula,

The great regret of so many of us and particularly genealogists,
is that we didn't ask questions when the elders of the family
were alive. Yes - if only...

The first thing we tell people beginning their genealogical
and family research is to interview the older people first.
Even if they hesitate at first, with prompting most begin to
tell their stories and often, it develops a watershed effect.

Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Bendersky" <sbenders_at_netline.cl>
To: "Shula Klinger" <shuflute_at_telus.net>; "Cz List"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] CBC Radio Documentary: on the air!

> Dear Shula,
> I want to thank you for what you are doing to show your relationship with
> Czernowitz. I am probably a generation older than you and my own mother
> was a survivor of the Transnistria camps. (Unfortunately, my grandmother
> didn't make it and perished from typhus somewhere along the road to
> nowhere).
> Notwithstanding our generation gap, I feel completely identified with
> everything you tell us in your March 2011 article. Even though my mother
> experienced Czernowitz, she came to Chile in 1947, married an Argentinian
> who had come to Chile when he was 13 and her children, myself included,
> were not so interested in listening to her stories from such a distant
> past and territory. How I regret having been so blind and deaf in my
> youth! And it is necessary to admit that my mother did not like talking
> about her misfortunes. She had a sort of script, not very precise in
> chronological or even logical terms, that she almost recited sometimes.
> The questions about your upbringing were the exact questions I used to ask
> myself. The holes of your family stories are my own holes. And so are the
> values and particular stresses on etiquette, the value of education, and
> in fact, all what you describe in your article!
> So, sister, or should I say niece? you represent my voice. And I have no
> doubt that you also represent the voice of so many people who are
> scattered around the globe.
> Thank you again, Shula, and thanks to this incredible L-Cz network and the
> wonderful people who compose it.
>
> With deep emotion,
>
> Sally Bendersky
> Santiago, Chile
>
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> From: Shula Klinger
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:30 AM
> To: Cz List
> Subject: [Cz-L] CBC Radio Documentary: on the air!
>
> Dear all,
>
> A documentary about my relationship with Czernowitz will be aired on
> national CBC Radio One, on March 30 (1:00pm, Living Out Loud). Loosely
> based on the article I had published last year
> (http://www.jewishindependent.ca/Archives/mar11/archives11mar04-10.html),
> it features the voices of several list members. The orientation of the
> piece has changed a little, to match the theme of the show: "Who do you
> think you are?"
>
> I am deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to this project, and wish
> I could have used every second of the tape I gathered. The stories I read
> and heard, and the people I encountered, have given me an entirely new
> perspective on our history in Europe, and on the education I hope to give
> my own children (our boys are now 4 and 1).
>
> So I invite you to listen, humbly and a little nervously, to my longest
> radio projext to date, and hope that it strikes the right kind of chord. I
> am privileged to enjoy the company of extraordinary people here. The
> Cz-list is a terrific place to learn the real meaning of "Mensch."
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Shula Klinger
> Vancouver
> Canada
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