Hello Mordecai and all Czernowitzers,
Memory is a very strange thing, particularly in regard to the things
we remember
from the time we were very young children. I too can see very clearly
and in great detail
events which happened to me before I was seven years old.
I think that the events remembered in such clarity are the ones which
made
a very strong impression on us, by being unusually scary, novel, or
emotional.
Mimi
On Apr 27, 2015, at 1:13 AM, <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il> wrote:
> Dear Bruce
>
>
>
> All I can contribute is just an account of a 5y+4 months year old
> ear-and-eye witness.
>
> My parents and I usually spent a week or two in the summers before
> 1940 in Gurahumora, where my father's cousins (the Apter family)
> lived.
>
> I recall vividly that evening, in the summer of 1938, and that
> disaster. It was a typical summertime thunder-and-lightning strom
> night, and my parents and I stood at the window of our room,
> fascinated by the lightnings that lit the darkblue sky.
>
>
>
> Suddenly we heard and saw a little plane in the sky, and after a
> few seconds there was another lightning, followed this time by a
> thunderous explosion. We saw suddenly people running in the streets
> and a few carriages passing quickly in a particular direction.
>
> The next morning we learned from the neighbours that the plane had
> been struck by lightning and had crashed in some "nearby" wood. The
> site of the catastrophe had become a “celebrity” with many peasants
> from the villages around gathering to visit it.
>
> I have no good explaination, but this is my only crystal-clear and
> vivid memory of the summers in Gurahumora (which is not too far
> from Stulpicani). The scene of the room we were in, as well as of
> the short period we stood at the window and the events that we saw
> and heard, was many years - and still is - clear and vividly
> imprinted as a frame before my eyes. I suppose the tragic
> catastrophic crash that I witnessed made an indelible impression on
> my mind, and the intact disquette is still there, the resolution
> not reduced by the nearly 77 years that have passed.
>
> Shavua Tov
>
> Mordecai
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