Re: [Cz-L] Revolution 8

Sylvia,
  You tell us a story of a visit more than 60 years after.
   Of a town friendly and welcoming,
     Our behaviour in 1946 seems unexplainable.
       Even I find it hard to understand !
        Are you sure you were in Czernowitz ?
Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvia de Swaan" <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "Josefine Koch" <josefineaz_at_gmail.com>; "cornel fleming"
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>;
"Benjamin Grilj" <b.grilj_at_perspectiveast.com>; "Christian Herrmann"
<cyberorange_at_gmx.de>; "Mark Wiznitzer" <markwiznitzer_at_gmail.com>;
"CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Revolution 8

> Hardy, I don't think I can make you love me :) ...you have been
> disdainful of everything I've ever posted here ...as to my six week
> stay in CZ - I was very actively out there - got interviewed a couple
> of times for television and an article written about me and my work by
> one of my photo students....and got to know everything from arty types
> to street people...& everyone I encountered was kind and protective
> and helpful. When I asked people (in my almost non existent Ukrainian)
> where the synagogue or the Jewish cemetery, people often took my by
> the hand and walked me there. My landlady was amazing - (I rented an
> apartment) sometimes brought me food that her mother cooked,
> accompanied me to the municipal archive and to the hard to find Billa
> Street memorial & so on. ...which of course doesn't prove anything.
> But I'm a photographer and I'm not afraid of people and people feel
> that. So often I have found myself in cities where I don't know my way
> around and perhaps speak only a few words of the language...but so far
> (gott sei dank) have never been mugged & have had some pretty
> interesting adventures. I know it's a platitude, but to echo the words
> of Anne Frank, I believe, given a chance & when not stirred up by hate
> speech, "people are (mostly) good at heart"
>
> Sylvia
> www.sylviadeswaan.com
> http://sylviadeswaan.blogspot.com - Insight Out

-snip-

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