Post by dogtord on Jun 12, 2011 0:39:43 GMT -5
Hi miss Bothmann! And thank you! I just read up on the poll who everybody was, and I see you were Anna in Austria...... that was my real grandmother's name, in Austria, she was jewish, but they converted ( I think her married name saved her and the kids as well). Where in Austria were you?
The teacher that said that to me was Austrian, and, unbelievably, nothing happened to him at all. Yes, my reading went really well, but now I have even more questions I spent hours on the Yad Veshem Central Database for the Shoah victim's website and searched 1000 names of Jews from Lyon. I narrowed it down to several women, based on the age, but - reading the disclaimer on the website - only half of the Jews killed are documented there. I was looking for an Isabelle, like SS3 suggested, and I found a LOT of them..... I also searched for a Sylvia and Rachel(when I was a child I wished my name was Sylvia or Rachel) because I hated my name. I didn't really come up with anything. I did find something interesting, though. When I put in just Lyon, France, into the search engine, it spit out over 1000 names, but MANY were Austrian Jews that had gone to Lyon (apparently to fight in the resistance - I had no idea!). Again the connection to Austria.... SS3 had a feeling I had something to do with a baker, or bakery, and Msmir did tell me that there was a connection to the food industry, such as a bakery.... interesting!! I'm navigating my way around, reading everybody's posts, wanting to jump in and say, for example, YES! I hate turtlenecks too! There are so many things I'm seeing and reading that remind me of myself.... I hope SS3 gets some more feelings about me...
I'd be really interested to know where you lived in Austria. how old were you? were you a child? My real mother was born in 1931, and the children of the village would always tell her that her mother "would be the next to go".... they lived in a village on the border between Styria and upper Austria, south of a town called Steyr, and the Hungarian Jews were driven through their valley on their death march to Mauthausen. There was a small holding camp for the Jews in their little town I think it was just outside of Weyer in Kastenreith (I think). My uncle told me about this place. I had no idea. They just recently put a memorial there. I visited Austria a few years ago, and - like I said before - even before i knew about my family's history of being Jewish, I was always depressed being there, and coming home to the States was like a weight was being lifted, I was free. So when I was there, my husband and son and I went to Mauthausen. It was the most depressing place and I could not stay long. The pictures, the crematory, the gas chambers, I freaked out.
Sorry, I'm rambling. I look forward to hearing more from you too!!
The teacher that said that to me was Austrian, and, unbelievably, nothing happened to him at all. Yes, my reading went really well, but now I have even more questions I spent hours on the Yad Veshem Central Database for the Shoah victim's website and searched 1000 names of Jews from Lyon. I narrowed it down to several women, based on the age, but - reading the disclaimer on the website - only half of the Jews killed are documented there. I was looking for an Isabelle, like SS3 suggested, and I found a LOT of them..... I also searched for a Sylvia and Rachel(when I was a child I wished my name was Sylvia or Rachel) because I hated my name. I didn't really come up with anything. I did find something interesting, though. When I put in just Lyon, France, into the search engine, it spit out over 1000 names, but MANY were Austrian Jews that had gone to Lyon (apparently to fight in the resistance - I had no idea!). Again the connection to Austria.... SS3 had a feeling I had something to do with a baker, or bakery, and Msmir did tell me that there was a connection to the food industry, such as a bakery.... interesting!! I'm navigating my way around, reading everybody's posts, wanting to jump in and say, for example, YES! I hate turtlenecks too! There are so many things I'm seeing and reading that remind me of myself.... I hope SS3 gets some more feelings about me...
I'd be really interested to know where you lived in Austria. how old were you? were you a child? My real mother was born in 1931, and the children of the village would always tell her that her mother "would be the next to go".... they lived in a village on the border between Styria and upper Austria, south of a town called Steyr, and the Hungarian Jews were driven through their valley on their death march to Mauthausen. There was a small holding camp for the Jews in their little town I think it was just outside of Weyer in Kastenreith (I think). My uncle told me about this place. I had no idea. They just recently put a memorial there. I visited Austria a few years ago, and - like I said before - even before i knew about my family's history of being Jewish, I was always depressed being there, and coming home to the States was like a weight was being lifted, I was free. So when I was there, my husband and son and I went to Mauthausen. It was the most depressing place and I could not stay long. The pictures, the crematory, the gas chambers, I freaked out.
Sorry, I'm rambling. I look forward to hearing more from you too!!