Re: [Cz-L] Pesach

Thanks Anny, for your mail.
You are lucky, thanks God, that you have a big family around you..Not
everybody is it.
I remember some Seder evenings in my early childhood, when my grandfather
mother side was still alive. He died in 1925, than my father was already
ill, so our family were women in majority...I remember a big Seder evening
at the father of Dr.Pinkas Mayer, a friend of our family, the grandfather of
late Prof.Hardy Mayer , California, there were also his uncles the two
brothers Segal, the teachers..This Seder was like a "Leitmotiv" my whole
life...and after the war, my late husband, who was a grandson of the "Dayan"
Brenner from the Steingasse, hold wonderful Seder for our family...Tempi
passati
Hag Pessach Sameah
Hedwig
-----Original Message-----
From: Anny Matar
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:08 PM
To: Miriam Taylor
Cc: Harry Jarvis ; czernowitz-L
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Pesach

Pessach: according to my experience is a time of re-union=togetherness a
time of remembrance. In my family, Pessach was a time when, close family
converged, to celebrate it together. My uncle studied in Germany, my cousin
in Prague and another cousin married living in Warsaw. Pessach dished were
brought down, Mazes were bought at a special bakery, in our case, which my
grandfather thought the best and thinnest in Czernowitz and my cousin and I
carried it in a huge basket covered with a white sheets home . The cooking
and preparations were made and, my father, who was still alive ,tasted and
bought the wine. My God, the excitement of it all. We, children, could
barely wait for this event to happen!! Since then, the old generation died
but my children still sat at a large family table with our mothers and the
whole family. I came with my children to London, whereto the family fled
before WWII, from wherever we worked and lived Israel, Vienna, Frankfurt to
celebrate it together. We were lucky not to have been deported but everyone
of us has had to live through its own Holocaust.

Yesterday we celebrated it at home in Israel and we celebrated our FREEDOM,
As in ancient times we had been slaves and became a people. Moses had a
hard time with "them Jews" and for 2000 years we were slaves to other
nations God had nothing to do with the Holocaust but with the
Germans people's evil and the flesh-pots of Egypt. Palestine was THERE but
none wanted to leave their homes, including my parents and my brother who
died in Auschwitz in April 1944!!! Was God to blame? Israel, like a
phoenix, was built on the ashes of the millions who died all over Europe
and still so many millions are waiting for what? Will God be blamed again?
Hag Sameach, for the freedom we achieved then and now. Happy Easter "with
all the Easter bonnets"
anny

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