Re: [Cz-L] Chernowitz Holocaust Memorial Needs Support

From: Kira K <sunki26_at_yahoo.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:44:40 +0000 (UTC)
To: "Taylor, Miriam R" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Reply-To: Kira K <sunki26_at_yahoo.com>


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te !important; } Thanks, Mimi. =C2=A0I was not involved in the planning st=
ages of the memorial, but assume that the location is symbolic while the me=
morial is to you and all others that you mention. =C2=A0I personally did no=
t find my offer to help objectionable. =C2=A0My grandmother was a young tee=
n during the war, and went through a similar path, so I learned that whethe=
r through personal or collective memories, memorials, books, online collect=
ions, museums, online museums, stories to my children or any other means of=
 keeping alive the collective memory - the goal is mutual. =C2=A0Through th=
is project, I connected with a number of people of my generation with this =
shared family experience. =C2=A0This was not intended to start a controvers=
y, but simply to let the group know. =C2=A0
Thanks,Kira


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On Monday, August 29, 2016, 1:22 AM, Taylor, Miriam R <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu=
> wrote:

Dear Kira and members of the Czernowitz list,

Neither previously, nor now, do I understand why there needs to be=20
A memorial to the ghetto in Chernivtsi.
The ghetto was the least of our problems. I know, because I was in the ghet=
to=20
from Oct. 11th till the ghetto closed at the end of November.
A memorial to the Holocaust as it affected the Jews of Czernowitz and the J=
ews=20
living in the neighboring villages and small towns is much, much more impor=
tant.
The murder of the prominent Jews in Czernowitz, the atrocities committed in=
 the villages,
Both by local inhabitants and roaming bands, the deportations to Transnistr=
ia,
Are all far more important.

Mimi

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