They are such heartbreaking and extreme experiences that cause us psychic and emotional wounds that are impossible to heal. There is no elixir able to erase those memories. In many situations I have lived through for so many years, I have wondered if I should relive my life as I lived it, knowing that every joy or pain, every triumph or defeat would return inexorably, my answer. it has been and will always be a definitive No.
I would never sign a pact, angelic or Machiavellian, that would promise me that I would return to my 15 years, to travel the same path again. There is nothing in this world to compensate for the horrors and pain experienced between 1941 and 1944. Like any life, mine is an ever-changing dance, between creation and destruction, gain and loss, successes and defeats, joys and sorrows, roads made and others abandoned.
If I have to notice one thing, it is that my greatest success was to choose my partner. Klara has been my companion for more than 60 years, and every time the Wheel of Fortune spun she was with me with love, attachment and unconditional support.
As an elixir of life, I can only say that I would be fully pampered by fate, if the next generations will continue to be animated by a sense of solidarity, generosity and honesty. These values have been alpha and omega for me, and I want them to become links that will strongly unite many generations of good people in the eternity to come.
Hillo Ostfeld, Caracas, 2009
Hillo Ostfeld
Trudy Ostfeld de Bendayan
Foreword / 9
Chapter I
Origins / 11
Chapter II
Descend into hell / 35
Chapter III
After the catastrophe / 57
Chapter IV
Rituals in development / 71
Chapter V
With all your might / 89
Chapter VI
The Land of Promise / 103
Chapter VII
Crossing the great sea / 131
Chapter VIII
At the feet of Avila / 143
Chapter IX
Harvest time / 167
Chapter X
Perseverance is required / 179
Chapter XI
Together with the Community / 193
Chapter XII
With the pillars of a nation / 207
Chapter XIII
Unrelessable destiny / 233
Chapter XIV
Nemesis / 243
Chapter XV
Will to twilight / 251
Chapter XVI
Returning in my footsteps / 261
Chapter XVII
Family biography / 285
Chapter XVIII
Fragments of life in images / 297
Chapter XIX
The last moments / 317
They are such heartbreaking and extreme experiences that cause us psychic and emotional wounds that are impossible to heal. There is no elixir able to erase those memories. In many situations I have lived through for so many years, I have wondered if I should relive my life as I lived it, knowing that every joy or pain, every triumph or defeat would return inexorably, my answer. it has been and will always be a definitive No.
I would never sign a pact, angelic or Machiavellian, that would promise me that I would return to my 15 years, to travel the same path again. There is nothing in this world to compensate for the horrors and pain experienced between 1941 and 1944. Like any life, mine is an ever-changing dance, between creation and destruction, gain and loss, successes and defeats, joys and sorrows, roads made and others abandoned.
If I have to notice one thing, it is that my greatest success was to choose my partner. Klara has been my companion for more than 60 years, and every time the Wheel of Fortune spun she was with me with love, attachment and unconditional support.
As an elixir of life, I can only say that I would be fully pampered by fate, if the next generations will continue to be animated by a sense of solidarity, generosity and honesty. These values have been alpha and omega for me, and I want them to become links that will strongly unite many generations of good people in the eternity to come.
Hillo Ostfeld, Caracas, 2009
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