Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

Thank you, Anny.
Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
To: "RUTH GOLD" <glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>
Cc: "Christian Herrmann" <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

>I entirely agree with Ruth, Christian and all those who have written
> and participated in this discussion. We lived in Germany from 1962-67
> and bear witness to the changes which took place in that country. My
> husband served for El Al in Austria from 1961-62 (during the Eichman
> trial which was scary because it was the Austrian police which was
> protecting the house we and the Israeli Ambassador, who lived opposite
> us, patrolled our street. Our son then 4 was not allowed to play with
> the next door boy, even over the fence, because he was a Jew,
> something, as an Israeli he didn't understand. Our Austrian landlady
> claimed that Austria was "occupied" by the Germans. In 1962 we were
> transferred to Germany, Germany was an incredible discovery. As we
> lived in Oberursel - a suburb of Frankfurt- where the International
> School was situated-, we had occasion to meet with local people whose
> past we never questioned, what reason would we have had? One lives in
> a country where the Holocaust is discussed and where we met and became
> friends, whom we keep in touch till today.
> Mr Herrman is right, but for me personally, a thorn in my heart is
> the word "Wieder - gut-Machung - restitution. Please forgive me but
> it's too hard to swallow. There are so many other good things the
> younger generation did which I respect and admire. Young Germans, a
> groop of them, were in Israel during the 6 Day War and their parents
> came to the ElAL office asking us (I was working there replacing my
> husband for a few hours rest) to send Telexes asking them to come back
> and THEY REFUSED!! That for me was proof of how the young generation
> has been educated.
>
> As for resilience, I understand my message didn't come through, I just
> thought I'd like to say that I feel and think that it was our parents
> who showed most of it. It was they who were uprooted at an advanced
> age, went to the 4 corners of the world and had to adjust in
> countries, new language, new friends - everything strange - they HAD
> to adapt in order to survive, make a life and a living for us who
> depended on them. My mother always used to say;"Uprooting a tree from
> one place with deep roots and expect them to take root again in such
> different surroundings is very hard". To me THEY were those whose
> resilience was tested more than ours, we were young!!
> Hoping it gets through this time, anny
>
>

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