Re: [Cz-L] Bricha

Hello Mordecai,

So there were and possibly are Czernowitzers everywhere.
Including Appeldorn Holland. I had forgotten; actually there was
another child from Czernowitz with us, Bracha Barasch,
probably born in 1939. we also had a teacher from Czernowitz,
who's name I think was Gross.
Mordecai, I do not remember your cousin, even though i should
since I was 10 years old when we went to Holland and probably
was in the same class as your cousin. We children had come
as members of various Zionist youth movements and were allocated
sleeping rooms and dining rooms according to our political affiliation!
I was a member of the "Ha-Noar Ha-Zioni" and as I remember
we were in one building with Gordonia and Dror Ha-Bonim.
Two other buildings housed: "Ha-Shomer", "Bnei Akiva", Beitar and
Agudat Israel.
Most children from the "Kfar Ha-Noar Ilania" (youth village Ilania)
were sent to Israel in Sept. 1948. But the youngest children,
those less than 12 years old remained in Holland for some time longer.
I eventually joined my parents on February 23, 1949. I came
on the "Transilvania", where it was a distinct advantage to speak
Romanian.

Many Czernowitz men were mobilized by the red army as soon
as they returned from Transnistria, I do not know whether at that time
there was such a shortage of soldiers, or whether the Russians had
no understanding for what these men had just gone through.
Some of them were killed a few days later, when the train
they were on was bombed by the Germans.

In Cyprus, my parents also pretended to be older than they were,
my father grew a mustache in order to look older and they too arrived
in Israel on May 15th 1948 and as they told me the Egyptians
were bombing Tel-Aviv and many Israelis, never having seen
a bombardment, stood in the open and looked at the sky.

Mordecai,
was your family name "Lapides" before you changed it to Lapidot?
I imagine our parents knew each other, I at least, remember
the name Lapides from Czernowitz.
I will be very glad to establish contact with your cousin
and exchange information.

I will look for the photographs from Cyprus, scan them and send them
to anyone interested.

All the best,

Mimi

On Feb 27, 2013, at 12:12 PM, <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il> wrote:

> Dear Miriam,
>
> Our paths crossed.
>
> 1. My cousin, Marcu Drapel then, was one of the children in that
> transport, and spent quite a while in the Appeldoorn camp with you
> (before joining us in Israel). He is a Czernowitzer, of course, so
> you were at least two there. He is away this week, and I will
> advise him upon his return, in case he may wish to contact you. He
> was 11 at the time. He went on that transport from Craiova, where
> we spent two years from May 1945 to September 1947, after
> "repatriation" from "Czernovtsy"
>
> Unfortunately, by the time we had reached Craiova, his father, who
> had been mobilised by the Red Army when they arrived in Czernowitz
> in 1944, had fallen on the steps of the Reichstag. He had been a
> mortar-operator in the famous 380th Rifle-Regiment, of the 171st
> Rifle-Division, of Zhukov's 3rd Shock-Army, that was assigned the
> dubitable "honour" (many Regiment commanders fought for this
> "honour") to storm the Reichstag on on the 30th April 1945 (it fell
> the next day, at heavy losses to that regiment, and a red flag was
> raised on the roof early 1st May morning, in time for the parade in
> Moscow) together with another regiment (the 756th of the 150th
> Rifle-Division of that same 3rd Shock-Army). Hitler, as we know,
> committed suicide on that very day, a few scores of meters away. So
> my cousin never saw his father again after having been separated
> from him in 1944. There is not much consolation in knowing that his
> father was one of the few Jews who survived the Shoah under Fascist
> occupation, and lived to take full revenge and fight victoriously
> all along East Germany, until actually storming the Nazi citadel,
> the event that marked the end of Nazi rule in Europe.
>
> 2. My parents too were on one of the Pans, jointly with yours. As
> you know, they arrived on 1st January 1948 morning, whereas I had
> left the night before for Palestine, having been interned there for
> over 3 months (I was a Maapil on the Haganah ship "Medinat
> Hayehudim" that left Burgas harbour erev Yom Kippur 1947, and was
> captured by the British navy, after some struggle, on Hol-Hamoed
> Succot). They were able (it was not an easy matter, because the
> British allowed only quite elderly inmates to immigrate to the
> newly established state, so they added 10 years to their age) to
> leave Cyprus for Israel on the day after its establishment (on 15
> May afternoon). It was Shabbat and they saw large fires in Tel-Aviv
> harbour (the result of the first raid of the Egyptian bombers on
> Tel-Aviv) and when questioning the Madrichim they were told that
> these were bonfires lit in their honour...Thus I was fortunate to
> meet them that Motzaei Shabbat, after a separation of only 8 months.
>
> Could you have a look at the photos you mentioned and see if there
> is a Frau or Herr Lapides there?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mordecai Lapidot

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