| So I get an email from Julie talking about | | | | go out, and the flowers were beautiful. She |
| her grand mother who was a refugee during the | | | | loved the nature, the lake, the mountains. |
| war here in the Caux Palace where I am | | | | The walks.Then the day of peace arrived. They |
| currently studying Hotel Management.She goes | | | | were not permitted to go out not even to |
| on to say: | | | | telephone their son. They heard only later |
| | | | how everyone has gone out and had a big |
| There were 1600 jews coming from the Bergen | | | | celebration - without them.Finally, another |
| Belsen camp and they arrived towards the | | | | group arrived, they went to another city |
| begining of December 1944. Escaping finally | | | | nearby some of them, others to Palestina (now |
| with their life and ultimately very happy and | | | | Israel) and that is the story of her |
| hungry with almost no showers. Old, young, | | | | grandmother's stay there.Her husband was in |
| men and women.They were put first in a big | | | | the meantime in a hospital nearby (where they |
| hall, and given covers and food. Then put | | | | gave them more food and was warmer) and her |
| into small rooms, lots were packed in, as | | | | daughter worked to keep clean the hotel |
| there was not much space. They got food and | | | | first, then to give lessons of gymnastic to |
| slowly, clothes to wear.But it was a cold, | | | | people. She cared for the children and |
| cold winter and they did not have adequate | | | | cleaned their rooms.Happy to escape with |
| heating in the building, and her grand mother | | | | life, but still a difficult life leid |
| wrote they were freezing most of the time.And | | | | ahead.They stayed later in old people's house |
| they were still closed off from the rest of | | | | for the next 15 years, then went to live with |
| the world. Sometimes, one of them was given | | | | their children. She met her grandmother in |
| permission to go out. One could go to Geneve, | | | | 1961 when she came out of Romania. - Blog |
| visit his son and family there.Spring | | | | about the Caux Palace and the stories behind |
| arrived, they were given more permission to | | | | it. |