KADDISHEL
A Life Reborn
Miriam has a friend named Chaia, with whom she had renewed her friendship when they both went on the expedition from Israel to Ludvipol to set up the new memorial. Chaia is none other than the girl who left Ludvipol in 1936 with her grandfather Mottel the sho- chet and her brother Shlomo to join her father, Joseph Schwartz - man, in the Holy Land. Miriam called Chaia to tell her the news. “Imagine what hap- pened! My son met Aharon Golub.” Chaia exclaimed, “Oh, my God. I still have a picture of Arieh’s sister, Chava, on a Rosh Ha’Shana card that she mailed to me from Ludvipol!” For the 1936 Jewish New Year, being the daughter of a fami- ly who ran a photography studio, Chava had sent Chaia a Rosh Ha’Shana card personalized with her photograph. She had written her greeting on the back in her beautiful Hebrew handwriting. Miriam convinced Chaia to give me the card. When Israel and Manya Eiger visited Miriam in Israel, they brought me back this precious memento of my sister. Since then, we old Ludvipol friends maintain closer contact. Ruthie and I have seen Miriam and her sister several times in Israel when the old crowd gathers at parties. I remembered Miriam from 1950 as a young woman, and now we are both grandparents of chil- dren who study together in a Jewish school in America. Chava’s New Year greeting to her girlhood friend traveled to Israel and then to me in the United States. This is indeed a small world. On the back of the card, Chava wrote in her beautiful handwrit- ing, “For a lasting memory, I send my photograph to you, my dear- est friend, Chaia Schwartzman. From me, Chava Golub.”
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