Re: [Cz-L] Jewish past.

May be the Czernowitz memorial day should be on June at the day when the
Nazi and Romanians entered the city and start the implementation of the
cleaning it from Jews. It is still school time (up to 20 June) at least here
in Israel, and the weather is good allowing outdoor activities in
Czernowitz.

Avi

-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 9:42 PM
To: Avi Raanan
Cc: HARDY BREIER ; CZERNOWITZ-L
Subject: 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

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