Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

Hi Anny,
Thanks for your very interesting story, I completely agree with you
Shabbat Shalom
Hedwig

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From: Anny Matar
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 1:20 PM
To: RUTH GOLD
Cc: Christian Herrmann ; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
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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