Great story, dear Oren !
Thanks and best regards,
Irene
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[mailto:bounce-119791647-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Saraf, Oren
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 3:31 PM
To: Hardy Breier; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Germans go home.
My father's- cousin Arthur had to go to high-school in Campolung, and lived
there with a the Hanke family, a Volksdeutsche family.
Here is a story from his memoirs:
One of Frau Liesel's best friends lived in Berlin and was married to a
former army officer who became a high ranking member of the Nazi party. This
man died in 1937 and therefore, Mrs. Hanke invited her friend to Campolung,
to spend a few weeks of mourning with her. The lady arrived by train, after
a 3 day journey and we all went to pick her up. During the first dinner the
"friend" took part by making anti-Semitic comments and no one replied. On
the following day, she once again made all sorts of remarks against the
Jews. On that same day, at tea time, the two ladies were looking as if they
had been crying. Naturally, I felt quite bad, but I did not say anything.
That evening the "guest" did not come to dinner. On the third or fourth day
of the visit, the visitor ordered a car and went to the train station all by
herself and went back to Berlin!!! Only afterwards did Mrs. Liesel tell me
that after having made her first anti-Semitic remarks, she had told her
friend that I was Jewish and that since I was also a guest in their house,
she requested her to please stop making these comments. The friend did not
reply. After the second occasion, Mrs. Liesel had told her that everyone is
entitled to their own ideas, but that she did not have to be insulting in
HER home in front of HER guests. Since the friend did not like it and
repeated that she said what she felt like saying wherever she felt like it,
Mrs. Hanke told her that in such case, she could no longer stay in her house
and to go back to Berlin. It was 1937.
The faith of the Hanke's was sad-
Their boy was sent to the east front, never came back, and they lived the
rest of their life in poverty in Stuttgart.
Oren
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Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 1:44 AM
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Subject: [Cz-L] Germans go home.
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/whasup/9748234/6957794/6957794_original.jpg
Volksdeutsche go home from Bukovina -- 1940-41.
Hardy
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