Re: [Cz-L] trip to Czernowitz

From: Sylvia de Swaan <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:25:54 -0400
To: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Reply-To: Sylvia de Swaan <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com>


it's a cool place! gemütlich
[Sylvia de Swaan]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:16 PM, cornel fleming
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi Lloyd! It so happens that I have been to New York,so if I asked you a
> lot of questions about it I would have some idea of the sense and meaning of
> your replies. Otherwise I would have no ability at all to visualise the
> reality of your city. Now, you have been asking many questions about
> our..and your..area of origin so you obviously have some interest. So I
> strongly suggest that instead of going to the Catskills or wherever on your
> next holiday you go and look at your ancestral home...and then maybe you
> will understand the rest of us a little better!! Cornel.
>
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> [mailto:bounce-119537281-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd
> Marksamer
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 8:21 PM
> To: David Weiner
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> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] trip to Czernowitz
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> David! Excellent narrative of your trip back to Czernowitz...a trip back in
> time. Did you have mixed emotions?
> I am of a different character. I grew up in a neighborhood of New York
> about a 30 minute drive from where I live now. I lived there from age 5
> until I got married at age 22. I have no interest or desire to go back for a
> tour. I have plenty of memories, both good and not so good, but let them
> stay over there.
> I love the neighborhoods I spent the next 40 years living in including the
> two I call home now. So I understand your wife's feelings about revisiting
> her former home where it all ended so tragically after many happy years.
> Maybe she just loves her new home of 70 years just a little bit more and
> does not want to endure or relive the pains of the War years.
> Lloyd
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