Re: [Cz-L] Gura Humora

Dear David:
What a harrowing story. Where were your parents while you children were
being shunted from one port to another? I suppose most children could
survive an ordeal like that much better than adults. How old were you during
that voyage?
Were your parents waiting when you finally arrived in Israel? What was
life like after assimilation? Where do you live now?
My father, a Czernowitz native who immigrated to America with his family
around 1910, used to sing a popular song in the early 1950s titled "Tell Me
Where Shall I Go", about a Jewish refugee seeking entry into numerous
ports but finding "every door is closed to me".. It was very, very sad.
I sincerely hope that you and your family have a very healthy and happy
New Year.
           Iris
 
Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar, Raleigh, North Carolina

In a message dated 9/21/2014 8:35:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dweiner_at_xs4all.nl writes:
Dear all
Reading about the reunion in Gura Humora I remembered the nice time I had
there.
In the years 1946-1947 I have lived in Gura Humora in the "Beth Ieladim"
that was a sort "Hachshara" for children of 8 to 18 years creatad by the
youth asociation "Hanoar Hatzioni" in Rumania.
We were preparing for Alia and indeed 1n 1947 a small group was sent, via
Holland, while all the other children went through Bucarest to Burgas
Bulgaria and embarked on a Canadian icebreker ship which was then renamed
"Medinat Haiehudim". Together with a second ship renamed "Geula" we set en
route to ERetz Israel.
After we passed the Bosphorus we were awaited by British war ships which
escorted us until we neared Palestine and there with brutal force
including big sticks and tear gas they entered us.
We were brought to Haifa and from there in the haul of a British ship
"Ocean Vigour" to Cyprus.
In these two ships there were more than a thousand children and we were in
Cyprus until the end of 1947 when prince Charles was born.The governement
of Britain then gave 1000 certificates for the smaller children and so we
came to Eretz Israel.
I hope that this story of mostly Bucovinian children, I myself was born
and lived until 1941 in Cernowitz is of interest to some of you.
David
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