Re: [Cz-L] Independence Day

[Next time in plain text please --thanks]

Dear Anna,

I regretfully need to correct a typo in your message - the number of fighters who fell in he course of the last 70 years (including those of the Haggana, Etzel and Lehi, is over 20,000 and unfortunately not 2,000 as you wrote. Just to think that this is the price we had to pay to save so many millions of our people here and abroad (those who fled from so many countries) whereas Czernowitz lost a similar number just in the 3 years of trasnnistria,.

As to your research re your step-brother - have you contacted the office of French Jewry in Jerusalem who have kept track of many of the jews who were deported from France during the war? And Yad vashem?

Mordecai

----- Original Message -----
From: Anny Matar <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 14:16
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Independence Day
To: Maurice Linker <linkerm_at_gmail.com>, Christian Herrmann <herrmann_at_ijab.de>, Rika Meyerowitz <rikwil_at_gmail.com>, Rosemarie Millner <rosmarie_at_netvision.net.il>
Cc: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>, "<lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>" <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>, "<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>, Andy Halmay <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>, Anand Mani <qusarus_at_yahoo.com>, Robin Clein <nibordj_at_gmail.com>

These are the most difficult days for the likes of me as am overcome by so many memories, as Christian calls it the "Vanished World" I come from.
A week ago on Israel we remembered the six millions Jew who perished in the different camps in Europe. My stop-brother was one of them who died on the incredible date of April 1945!!! we had been informed by the Red Cross but not of the place where he died. After years of research we found out that he died in Lithuania!! of all places, after having been deported from Paris to Auschwitz. Why there? has anyone an answer?
On Sunday evening started the memorial day for over 2000 Israeli soldiers who gave their young lives -most between 19 and 22. So many friends, freedom fighters in Ezel or Stern underground movements went to tha gallows or died fighting, so many children As the Hebrew saying "Every person, young or old, who die leave a whole world behind" so many died before like even started for them. I once told the story which appeared in the papers in 1948, of a Holocaust who came to Israel with his only surviving family. his son, who just arrived in Palestine, fought in the war of Independence and fell, when he was buried all his unit and commander came after prayer the father started singing and dancing. Everyone thought he had gone mad but when he stopped he said " Of a close family of 80 he is the only one who gave his life for a cause and the only grave I have to come to".
That is life in Israel and after so much sadness and the flag on half mast, the celebration of Independence starts. Our flag flying proudly in the wind and thousands of young people women and men parading! It's like an awakening out of all sorrow into jubilation.

Jewish life the mixture of sadness and joy. "L'iskor" Remember is our prayer never to forget but go on living!! And here I am still around to tell the tale of woe and my gratitude for having been given life, children, grand-children and a great-grand-son!! What more can life give one??

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