The story of Gizela - Afik Shiraz. Abinun Shmuel

and won the Nobel Prize. Tere was stationed a sculpture in his image and a museum to commemorate him. The area was full with stalls along the street, where Russian peddlers and Gypsies offered their wares to passersby and for visitors - sorts of souvenirs and jewelry for tourists. The city center has also changed, and some of the streets that I remember are completely gone. My father's shop was still on hold, but the tin shutter my father used to roll every evening at the end of the work day, was now replaced by a glass window. When I sat down in the cafe at the hotel where my father used to sit with his friends on Saturdays, we were told that the place was going to be held by wedding and that we can't sit there.

Gizela and a companion at the foot of Ivo Andrich statue, in Vishegrad 2016

I took the opportunity to visit a friend called Bukica Romano, who was with me in Bergen- Belsen, and seeing the house where I lived in as a child. The one-story house I grew up in has now another floor added, probably because it was hit by the bombs, and in the yard, instead of the fruit trees that my parents fostered, another building was now standing. The house didn't belong to me anymore for many years; before immigrating to Israel, I sold it for a small amount which was enough for Leon and me to purchase the lift where we sent our belongings. Roni, my nephew, Cila's son, stood next to me and sobbed as if he had just lost this moment his mother. I tried to reassure him by saying, "Don't cry, it's not our anymore. If they want to destroy it – let it be destroyed, what do we care about?" I felt no pain. I sold the house, marked "X" and it's over. The second week my nieces returned to Israel and I stayed with my son, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Toward the second weekend, Tilda, my cousin from Split, arrived with her husband Edward Tauber, their son Leo and his wife Sandra. I was happy.

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