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

From: Eytan Fichman <fichblue_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:13:05 -0400
To: mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu, HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET
Reply-to: Eytan Fichman <fichblue_at_aol.com>

I feel like my mother's selections might have been like yours, Mimi, based =
on the way she wrote about CZ and the way she spoke about it. In fact I thi=
nk she shared many of the specifics on your list . . . thank you

Eytan Fichman
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
=20
42 / 11 Tran Binh Trong,
Hai Phong, Viet Nam

-----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: Mon, Aug 20, 2012 7:05 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

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

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