Re: [Cz-L] Jewish past.

Mimi!
I strongly agree with you and our oral history, or written, will be a testimony to our offspring.
They are very interested as to our origin and past.
Here, in Dayton, at the Shoa memorial service, my story of Czernowitz and survival in Transnistria was featured and presented by a 17 year old, whom I told the story in one and a halve hour. He was very good and presented it as if were Felix of the Bukovina.
The next day, as we all do, I spoke at another atom Hashoa gathering of about 40-50
Felix

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On May 1, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

> 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

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