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

Not the making of Czernowitz ?
 What is Czernowitz ?
  A personality ?
 All that happened in Czernowitz is the making of Czernowitz.
   What else ?
    Czernowitz is the people not the gardens..
  Why on earth did we flee this benevolent Garden of Eden ?
Hardy
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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 6:20 AM
Subject: 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
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