Re: [Cz-L] Do you love Czernowitz ?

I was lucky enough not to be deported to Transnistria.
I was in the ghetto for 9 weeks. Last year I even located
the building in which we stayed in the ghetto.
I remember waking up on the morning of my fifth birthday,
after the night in which the deportations resumed in June 1942,
in a strange bed, in a strange apartment, where my parents
had left me, while they were hiding somewhere else.
I remember playing "Halt die Haende hoch, Du schaebiger Jude"
with my two friends who were both six years old.
I remember, later during the summer of 1942, hiding in the attic
of a house, while soldiers searched the building.
I remember my father crying when we got a letter from Transnistria,
telling us that my grandmother had died.

I was definitely shielded from the worst.
I did not know about the massacres till much later.

But while horrible things happened to us in Czernowitz,
they were not of the making of Czernowitz.
They were of the making of the Germans, Romanians, Russians,
who invaded Czernowitz or decided its fate from afar.

Was there another mayor in all of central Europe, who tried
to save the Jews of his city, as did Traian Popovici?

Mimi

On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:20 PM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

> Czernowitz memories without the Holocaust ?
> That is what they do at the town museum.
> And we rose such a noisy protest , because of.
> If such was the narrative most of us would still live there.
> But we dont - so something is missing.
>
> Hardy
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miriam Taylor"
> <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
> Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Do you love Czernowitz ?
>
>
>> Each one of us with their own memories and associations;
>> I'll try to sort my associations not by priority but by pleasure:
>> 1. A feeling of belonging and being at home
>> 2. The Volksgarten
>> 3. My and my parents' friends
>> 4. Creme Schnitte
>> 5. Walking on the Herrengasse, the Ringplatz, the Siebenburgerstrasse
>> 6. Tobogganing down the very steep street between Neueweltgasse
>> and Brauhausgasse
>> 7. Learning Yiddish from the fables of Eliezer Steinbarg
>> 8. Apricots and their pits which tasted like almonds
>> 9. The theatre and the garden in front of the theatre
>> 10. The foyer of the cinema on the east side of the Herrengasse
>>
>> Of the bad memories I will mention only two:
>> 1. Wearing a yellow star of David
>> 2. Being called "Parsheve Zhid" (shabby Jew)
>>
>> Mimi
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