[Cz-L] Thank you

Dear friends,

Many thanks for the warm condolence notes following Hedy's lovely note about my mother. Some of you know Lotte personally and others know her from our writings. She was a true representative of her nonagenarian generation of Czernowitzers -- cultured, multi-lingual, well-read, intellectually curious, elegant and resilient. And so much more. My parents both joined our list in its very early days and my father, especially, was quite active. After my mother stopped using the computer a few years ago, she still really enjoyed some of the conversations I called up for her and she especially liked the various Yiddish expressions, the songs, the recipes you all evoked. She was always a bit bemused at the active interest in Czernowitz that the list fostered -- on the one hand, she shared in the nostalgia, but on the other, she never failed to tell us that as a young woman, she actually found Czernowitz small and constraining and wanted to leave for other more cosmopolitan parts of Europe. Sadly, she came of age just with the start of the war and thus she had to wait until 1945 to leave Czernowitz and then only for Romania. Returning in 1998 was an important moment for her, but she was disappointed in the shabby and lackluster place she found in 1998 and was eager to tell us how different it had been in earlier days. Lotte was a great friend of Hedy's, of course, and she was also very close to Pearl Fichmann and some others on the list.

thank you for helping keep her memory alive, Marianne
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