Posts Tagged 'Haifa'
4 Shots: 2 Haifa, 2 Tel Aviv
Published June 10, 2010 Israel 2 CommentsTags: Army, Cafe, Coffee Shoppe, Dolls, Haifa, Israeli military dolls, Mint tea, Smurfs, Tel Aviv
12 Nazis
Published January 27, 2009 *All Posts , Germany , Israel 1 CommentTags: Gelbensande, Germany, Haifa, Nazis, Persian, Restoration, Rostock
Last week in Haifa, there was a chance to volunteer doing restoration work with the best team of German/Malaysian/Indian/Persian/Canadian/American/Ecuadorians the Middle East has yet to see. While we sat on the fourth story of iron pipe and wood plank scaffolding around this World Heritage site, painstakingly examining limestone plates and decals from three generations past, we swapped stories.
Our Persian German friend painted two of the most bizarre pictures from his early childhood. The first, and by far the most jarring, is as follows.
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In 1991, soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, one branch of the Bidadel family moved to Gelbensande, a small town close to Rostock, in former East Germany. Just as Russia had been the downfall of Napoleon a century before, in World War II the Eastern Front ultimately proved a disaster for Germany. The Soviet presence in Eastern Germany was still palpable. Nazism stayed strong, xenophobia reigned, people raged, and the black-headed, olive-skinned, Persian-accented Bidadels moved in.
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