RE: [Cz-L] Discrimination Thread

This will probably get me shouted at..but!! A lot of these properties were simply abandoned by Jews who left the Soviet paradise and went over the nearest border,legally or otherwise. Just exactly what were the local population supposed to do..leave them empty and decaying until the previous inhabitants reappeared some 40 or 70 years later?? Also there is the not so minor fact that a lot of these places were not owned outright but rented,often from other Jews who also left. Yes,there were commercial properties seized by the Russians,as were community-owned buildings,and these latter items is what should be covered by restitution....which will only become likely if the Ukraine ever joins the EU. Cornel

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Sent: 10 February 2013 17:20
To: vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com; czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Discrimination Thread

Honestly Artur, I don't remember ever laughing and weeping simultaneously,
which is what occurred while reading your nostalgic, humorous but
poignantly beautiful story on returning to your grandmother's former house in
Czernowitz..
    Without using words like theft, fear and guilt, over two generations
later your story implies the granddaughter of the woman who benefited from
the seizure of your grandmother's house conveyed those very emotions when
confronted by the grandson of the original owner. The fact that you only
wanted to see the house again
did not seem to allay those feelings. To her, in 1945 you might as well
have carved your name in that basement in blood..
 
    Thank you, Artur. Your story speaks for itself.
                                                                            
        
Iris
Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar
Raleigh, North Carolina

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