תשובה: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: October 04, 2014

Helene
 Blessed be those who will carry the Word,
  They will inherit the Ehpes,

Hardy
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[mailto:bounce-118125229-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] בשם Helene Ryding
נשלח: Sunday, October 05, 2014 4:53 AM
אל: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
נושא: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: October 04, 2014

Dear Hardy

Some of us are still here, and reading like before, everyday, appreciating
the supply of memories, photographs, stories and history. But we do not
have as many personal experiences of Czernowitz to relate, as those who
lived there, or whose parents had stories to tell. So it is harder to take
part in the debates or contribute to the memories. I think that is
inevitable as time goes by.

I have no grandchildren yet, so as yet there are few questions about the
Grandad born in Czernowitz in 1905. That might promote more internet
searches to supplement our meagre understanding of my father's life before
he met my mother immediately after the war in Brussels and came to the UK.

In my small family, we had no Jewish upbringing and that ancestry was
hidden, while my father was alive. So I feel a bit outside some of the
discussions and memories, whilst others bring back fond memories of my
father's values, quirks and customs, and make sense of his stories. They
tended to be terribly inconsistent, as well as incomprehensible to someone
growing up in an insular northern English village, with little
understanding of life across the Channel, let alone Eastern Europe. Only
after 1989, and working in Eastern Europe did I begin to understand what
sort of an upbringing my sisters and I had had, and why two out three of us
now live in Eastern Europe. Later reading the stories in the Czernowitz
List, we began to recognise more of his customs and values, and why if he
was Jewish, his native tongue could be German, and why he was interested in
Paul Celan.

So please keep reviving the past while it still lives in people's memories.
We certainly recognise that life in Czernowitz is part of our personal
inheritance.

I have been to Czernowitz only once, but regularly work in Ukraine.
Speaking for myself only, I am concerned these days about the general
situation in Ukraine.

Sent from my iPad

Helene Ryding

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