Re: [Cz-L] After we go

Through the pictures I have seen I don't recognize MY city. There was a lot
of colour in that "old" town. The Austriaplatz had its own magic with the
peasants bringing their home products as well as live poultry. Women buying
their goods, blowing the feathers in the backs of the chicken to see
whether its "fat" enough and in the spring and summer the flowers!! Having
a park instead of a market and soldiers parading on it doesn't add to the
Czenowitz I knew. Hardy is quite right, visiting it is a fleeting moment,
Living there, Cornel, can't possibly be attractive, the "friendly" people
soon change their "spots" if you tread on their turf. We, those who lived
there till the 40s or earlier, watched these changes with horror when all
these friendly? people changed into packs of beasts and spat their hatred
at us. Jews can't help treading on toes because we, by nature, try to
better our lives and thus "show off". It isn't badly meant, we want our
comforts and bring something new, unwanted, into their ordinary lives.
MY memories are mine and as, Merle, said NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME.
The city had it character even the slush belonged to it when
Fiackers passed and splashed it all around. Came winter and it was all
covered in white, all the dirt hidden by that blanket of silence, houses
were gray, as old houses are supposed to be -it's called
"patina"- like we have our wrinkles of which each one has a story to tell
and when one face-lifts it, it looks just like Czernowitz does today, all
parks and benches in the centre but, the the side streets?? broken
pavements and neglect as the pictures taken at the Paul Celan meeting
showed.
Well, thinking about it, it is the city of the second/third generation and
they see pink and blue houses, everything green and white-washed. It is
their city and those longing for it.
Have a good week, anny

"patina
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:35 PM, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:

> And I couldnt wait for your reports:
> After 24 hrs
> After a month
> After 6 months
> Hardy
>
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