Re: [Cz-L] Jewish past.

Thank you Avi, for your message.I agree that if we want Jewish
Czernowitz
to be remembered, we need to tell our children, grandchildren and the
currently
young generations of Jewish children in Israel and other countries,
about Czernowitz and Bukowina Jewry and its heritage.
In Chernivtsi itself there are many memorial plaques and reminders
of the Jewish people who once comprised the majority of the population.
Czernowitz Jewish poets and authors are celebrated at the Meridian
Poetry festival
which takes place in Chernivtsi every fall.
I also know of many academicians who study the city's Jewish cultural
past.
They have previously and will in the future publish their findings in
journals
and research papers.
Last year I met in Chernivtsi one such researcher from France, this
year,
I met another one, from Sweden. In the US there are currently, to my
knowledge,
two graduate students, one from Romania and one from Chernivtsi,
researching
the Holocaust in Czernowitz. In Budapest at a university for
international affairs,
there are currently two graduate students, both former participants
in SVIT Ukraine
work-camps to clear the cemetery of weedy vegetation, who also study
Czernowitz,
it's former ethnic mix and the history of its population in the last
150 years.

We, who either were born in Czernowitz, or are the children and
grandchildren
of those who once lived there, can and should ensure, that the
particular culture
of Jewish Czernowitz will not be forgotten.
We can do so, by telling our memories in writing to our children and
grandchildren,
or to a wider audience, by maintaining and forwarding the photographs
we have
and by spreading the knowledge of our Czernowitz heritage and its
destruction
during the Holocaust through education systems, wherever we live,
but particularly in Israel.

Good things do not fall from heaven, it is necessary to work to make
them happen.
But the little we want, regarding the maintenance of the memory of
Jewish Czernowitz,
its flowering and destruction during the Holocaust, is not beyond us,
if we really try.

Mimi

On Apr 26, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Avi Raanan wrote:

> 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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