Re: [Cz-L] Visit to Bukovina - searching for the roots

Dear Gad,

It is so heartwarming to read your message about
your trip. I'm glad that it turned out to be as exhilarating
as it was - and I'm sure that these memories will remain
with you.

Merle

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From: "Gad Rennert" <rennert_at_tx.technion.ac.il>
To: "Merle Kastner" <merlek_at_videotron.ca>; "HARDY BREIER"
<HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>; <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
Cc: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; "'Cznerowitz Discussion
Group List'" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 9:40 AM
Subject: Visit to Bukovina - searchng for the roots

> Hi everybody
>
> I came back last week from an amazing visit to Bukovina.
> Our family, 19 people in total, ages 2 months to 80 years (four
> generations) visited for the first time Suceava, Radautz, family villages
> of southern Bukovina (Illisesti, Balceana, Brasca, Brodina, Putna),
> Chernowitz and Mogilev Podolski (Transnistria).
> The trip could not have more successful, exciting, emotional than it did.
> We visited cemeteries, synagogues, cities and were amazed to find family
> homes, tombstones and many landmarks which we sought. My aunt at 80 got to
> her grandparents graves for the first time. Nothing was more touching than
> seeing my sister's granddaughter (22 months old) brush the grave in
> Transnistria of her great-great grand father (my grandfather) non of us
> has ever met.
> I am sure I can guarantee that non of us who participated, at least in the
> two relevant generations, will ever forget the experience, the stories,
> the sights and the excitement of going back to where the family originated
> and lived almost 200 years ago.
> Many pictures will follow (mailed to Jerome to be put on Ephes site) and
> possibly some more stories.
> One dark angle of the trip was seeing the Siret synagogue, all newly
> painted from outside but deserted, broken and dusty from the inside.
> And we are all looking forward already to getting back to the area.
>
> Gadi

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