Preparing for Auschwitz
Israel>Germany>Krakau
GERMANY - Esslingen
[s. also Germany
- Stuttgart]
re-read ten years after
I saw my sister for the last time - Oct. 2003-2013
I wanted to use the chance to see my sister Ursel
and her husband.
[Oct. 6, 2009: this turned out to
be a precious "by-product" of my journey.
It was the last time I saw my sister!
a year later, on
Nov. 6, 2004, Ursel suddenly died - in her sleep!]
They live near the Black Forest, some 35 km west of Stuttgart,
the city, where I was born in1938 as Eva-Maria-Christa Guth.
East of Stuttgart, at Esslingen, lives my classmate Barbara von Gottberg
These are the only three people in Germany with whom I communicate.
It was a short, but good meeting,
with the two couples, separately and together,
and with Esslingen, the town,
where I studied Church-Music in 1957.
In hindsight I see a deeper meaning in that "detour":
How could I have gone straight to Krakov and Auschwitz?
My road to AUschwitz-BirkenAU will forever start from both sides,
from the nation of the perpetrators and the nation of the victims.
My overall goal is to heal the split between spirit/mind-----body/feeling.
From this intention and commitment follows the next goal:
To transform victimhood ("qorbanut")
into self-determination ("ribbonut").
Once someone asked a channeler on my behalf:
"Why did she choose to live among both
these nations?"
"Because of the strength of emotions in these two."
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South-Germany in 2003: four Germans
in a typical old street and in a typical cosy restaurant:
Barbara, my class-mate - Ursel, my sister - Uli, Barbara's husband -,
Martin, Ursel's husband
Barbara can hardly be called a typical German - she raised her children
in South-Africa and to Israel she came time and again.
Not by chance did we sit next to each other in our last year in school,
1956-7, though we were hardly friends then.
Now she copes with cancer and has become for me a guardian angel.
These were the people I met in Germany on my journey
to AUschwitz-BirkenAU.
There were two more aspects of Germany, which were "home"
for me in my youth:
the beauty of landscapes and old cities, and the beauty of churches
and the music in them.
It so happened - without planning - that I could savor the first in
Esslingen and the second in Stuttgart.
Water - a little river
Water - a Bridge
Water - a Well
Water - River and Bridge
Water - Well
Young people in Love
With Noah's Vision always in my mind I examine
Barbara's lift along the staircase in her house:
I already started (2003_11_26)
to carve out the steps down the long, steep slope
to the peninsula.
Could handicapped "Healing Guests" descend the slope in this
way???
Before we parted from Barbara and Uli and the town of my College of
Church Music,
my sister suddenly remembered,
that it was the evening of the weekly concert in the Stiftskirche in
Stuttgart.
We made it just in time.