Yes Avi,
It is our duty to transfer the memories of Czernowitz to our next
generation.
A few days ago I got a call from my 13 year old
gd- daughter before Holocaust Day , they got a task from school
to bring some family holocaust stories up , so I must answer
some questions from a list :
" Saba you come from the Shoah ? " Yes , little one.
Where have you been in Holocaust ? " In Czernowitz , in the Ghetto."
"How do you spell Czernowitz ? "Czernowitz on the Prut
is the capital of Bukovina ! Now they call it..."
Saba , what is this "Bukovina" ? -
"Bukovina has a long history let me...
No Saba no long history - in short ! What is the Prut ?
"The Prut is a river and comes from the Carpathians ..
" What is Carpathians ? Saba I think I have enough for now , thanks"
"Many kisses to you and Savta too."
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Avi Raanan" <raananas_at_bezeqint.net>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "CZERNOWITZ-L"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Jewish past.
>
> I want to continue Hardy's remarks, which ended with the :" minds..." .
> There is not question mark (?) at the end of his words, but there should
> be. Since only if the live remains from then year Czernowitz, will work on
> the minds of the 2nd and 3rd generations this unique place will not
> disappear.
> I can only speak for myself.
> I belong to those who were born after the 2nd WW (1952), not in
> Czernowitz, to Czernowitz born parents (mother). She and the family were
> reluctant to discuss and tell, I was not enough aware to press for the
> stories. Only last year more than 29 years after my mother past away, when
> almost no live remain of the original family members are still an
> available info source, I stated to learn and read more about Czernowitz,
> Bukovina the family etc. Also making a visit with all my family there.
> The education system in Israel (I'm not familiar how the Shoah is thought
> in other countries, if at all) mainly uses the Shoah as a lesson learned.
> Mainly as worming sign for us the Israelis, what can happen if we cannot
> protect ourselves, and have a true and open heart safe haven to all the
> world Jews.
> The profound anti-Semitic roots, the relation with neighbors are described
> only superficial.
> Only recently the habit to read the names of Shoah victims in the Shoah
> memorial day, become a ritual.
> The most important meeting and making Shoah not virtual but real, for the
> Israeli teenagers is the MITZAD AHAIM. Every year during few month (the
> peak is on Yom Ha' Shoah) thousands of 16-17 years old teenagers are
> going to Poland for a week visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau, Maidanek, Warsaw
> having preliminary deep study and meeting survivors. I remember how my
> daughter came impressed from the trip she made with her school there 18
> years ago.
> Coming back to Czernowitz, and To Hardy's open question on minds
> (remembrance, zichronot).
> Only if we can convince some of the schools, to divert their rout from
> Poland to Ukraine/Romania and go to places like Czernowitz, Kiev other
> sites were the Nazi and their collaborators murdered and practically
> cleaned Galitzia, Bessarabia and Bukovina from their hundred of thousands
> of Jews, the minds and memories of you the there born generation will have
> a true follow-up. Not only to the close family members but to a more broad
> population of Israeli teenagers.
>
> Avi
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