Re: [Cz-L] After we go

Dear Marianne,

Thank you for sharing the story of your parents' wedding with us.
It is amazing that your parents were able to get married just a week
after we all moved into the ghetto. They must have been very courageous.

Mimi

On Oct 18, 2012, at 3:24 AM, MARIANNE HIRSCH wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> 71 years ago today, my parents married in the Cernauti Primaria.
> They left the ghetto under military escort with two witnesses and
> were married, they then took the escort out to a Konditorei on the
> way back to the ghetto. They were able to get autorizatie for
> themselves and their families remained in the city for the rest of
> the war years. My parents' anniversary, like many other family
> milestones, was a history lesson. I grew up with this story and
> many others about their lives, and many of you know that these have
> shaped me profoundly, so much so that i spent more than a decade
> researching this history and writing about it with my husband Leo.
> When we went to Chernivtsi in 2000, we found the record of their
> marriage in the registry office. I was amazed that just as Cernauti
> was expelling its Jews, the registrar found the time to cross-
> reference their marriage with my mother's birth record, entered in
> 1918 in German. When we asked for a copy of the marriage license,
> which my parents never received, it was issued to us in Ukrainian.
>
> This is the first October 18 in my life that I no longer have a
> parent to call to mark this occasion. So thank you all for being
> there to observe it with me,
>
> Marianne
>

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