That's a remarkable story which adds so much life to that picture.
Thank you for sharing it with us, Eytan. This is what I look for in
pictures - the people behind them. My grandfather, from Kolomea, also
died in NYC from stomach cancer, not long after WW II. I was
convinced that it was from serving in WW I and eating the trayf that
all the men were served.
Thank you again.
Shelley
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Eytan Fichman <fichblue_at_aol.com> wrote:
> That is a picture of my grandfather, Marcus Spiegel, father of my mother,=
Pearl Spiegel Fichman.
>
> My mother told me that Marcus was forced to sit for the picture with his =
head uncovered - something he otherwise would never have done. I believe th=
is image was taken during the Ghetto period in Czernowitz. My mother was ab=
le to help her parents to survive through the war and to avoid deportation =
to Transnistria. Marcus died a few years after WWII was over, in NYC, from =
cancer of the stomach. His wife, children (excepting one) and grandchildren=
survived him.
>
> I was born five years after Marcus's death. When I was a young child, my =
mother would talk with me about her father; often it seemed; about how kind=
and gentle he was and how he made it part of his daily life to help poor J=
ews in Czernowitz. My mother would often cry when she talked about him. My =
older brother, Mark, my parents' first child, was named after him. Marcus =
Spiegel was a very religious man who grew up near Kolimya, married Pessie S=
tadler and moved with Pessie to Czernowitz to set up a store and raise a fa=
mily. All of Marcus's family in Poland was killed during the war. My mother=
said Marcus loved his mother very much and talked about how kind she was .=
. .
>
> When they forced into the Ghetto, Marcus cut the chords suspending the pe=
ndulum in the big clock in their home. He didn't want the occupiers to be a=
ble to enjoy it. My mother said it was the only bitter thing she ever saw h=
im do.
>
> My mother wrote about Marcus several times in her book, Before Memories F=
ade.
>
> Eytan Fichman
> B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
>
> 42 / 11 Tran Binh Trong,
> Hai Phong, Viet Nam
>
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