RE: [Cz-L] Discrimination Thread

Bruce....all those who describe all Ukrainians as anti-Semitic monsters
should read this! And it very much ties up with the experience my family had
on our" 600th Czernowitz anniversary" trip. I wanted to show them the
University,with all it's Jewish connections...and the security guard on the
gate said "No visitors allowed..go away!"...at which point a young student
and her boyfriend marched up,informed the guard that we were part of the
people who had built up the town and we were their guests and took us in. We
then got invited to the young lady's parents! Again,treated as very
welcomed visitors by total strangers. Cornel

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Subject: [Cz-L] Discrimination Thread

Dear Cousins,

I am about a week behind my reading of the list, so forgive if this seems
late.
I never lived in CZ and, thank g-d, never had the unfortunate
circumstances that you all lived through.
All I can relate to is my experience when I visited Czernowitz in 2005. I
went to the home of my great grandfather with the intention of telephoning
my mother on her 97th birthday from the home of her grandfather.
On a whim, I asked our guide and translator to knock on the door and
explain to the current occupants my reason for being there. To make a long
story
short, we ended up being fed, dancing with and having an amazing time with
these strangers.
Did I mention that I wore a kippa the entire time I was in Czernowitz?

So, as Paul McCartney has written " there is good and bad in everyone",
yet my experience in Czernowitz was everything I could have hoped for and
more. The experience with these wonderful strangers in Chernivtsi was
certainly a highlight of my life.

Bruce Wexler
Jackson, NJ

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