Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery in the Early Nineties

Cornel , as you so patriotically declare :
  quote:
 "To my mind, "Am Israel Chai"
 is still a valid concept in my home town!!

  So maybe they can also upkeep their cemetery ?

Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
To: "'Jacob Greenberg'" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; "'HARDY BREIER'"
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 7:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery in the Early Nineties

> Serah, I hope you drank a glass or two of"Lake's Folly" wine.....and if it
> was another brand go out and buy some of the wine I miss because it is too
> good for export!! But I still would like a full translation. We have a
> professional film-maker in the group and I suspect he could confirm that
> films can be made to show things to audiences that are convincing but not
> necessarily true to all the facts. Just one example...during the Vietnam
> war
> Sydney TV had us convinced that huge anti demos were practically wrecking
> London. When I got to the UK I discovered that it was a few 100s of people
> outside the US Embassy..the rest of London did not even know it was
> happening! I left in your first wave. But,I came back,both during Soviet
> times and after. You grew up during the Soviets....how much of "the broken
> spirit" you describe were you aware of then? The Jews I met on my visits
> were partly"original" Czernowitzers and partly incomers from the villages
> etc....but come to think of it,is that not the way Czernowitz acquired
> it's
> Jews all along?? I am very aware of the terrible things that happened,to
> many of my family too.and yet....my Czernowitz friends tell me the Jewish
> population is growing...slowly,but never-the-less growing.I am part of the
> cemetery restoration group as are many others including volunteers from
> Ukraine,Germany and other countries,and none of our graves are being
> desecrated to use the stones for street repair. To my mind, "Am Israel
> Chai"
> is still a valid concept in my home town!! Cornel
>

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