These are the funeral of Ivett Schmilovts, a 95-year-old Romanian-Israeli woman who survived the Holocaust, but not Iranian missiles. Schmilovts died on June 16 in Petah Tikva, ten kilometers east of Tel -Aviv. Israeli court doctors needed a week to determine the remains. On Tuesday, eight days after her death, Schmilovts gathered relatives and acquaintances in the segul cemetery in order to give out the last honor of the surviving in the Holocaust. Her friend, her grandmother. Just like the master of Dana Sufflet and her sister is width. Both are Schmilov’s granddaughter.
On June 16, Iran fired a missile in a volley towards Israel at night. The marching rocket flew past the missiles of Israeli air defense and hit House in Schmilovts, between the fifth and fourth floor. According to the report of the Israeli broadcaster, in the 20-story building there were two battalion control sites. The Israeli army did not comment on the request.
Destruction in a high level is still visible in a week. On the fifth floor, on which Schmilovs lived, two rooms in the right corner were found as a result of the explosion, loaded walls -integrated, internal metal wires of reinforced concrete are wound. On the corner of the house, someone hung an Israeli flag.
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The smell of cement and debris
In mid -June, Israel Iran was surprisingly attacked, nuclear facilities, apartments of generals and nuclear scientists. The declared goal was to prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb. The states fired at each other for twelve days. In Israel, people fled to bunkers and shelters, people prayed in Iran and looked at heaven.
In the apartment in the width of Hout Masters, friends and relatives gathered two days after the funeral to mark the deceased to sacrifice comfort. There are cakes, grapes, baking, as well as a thermos with black coffee on the table. Granddaughter Dana Suflet Master carries a pink plastic bag in the room. Inside: a leather bag, faded dust and fragments, family pictures, shopping lists, shopping bags, beige coat and packaging of tablets. When she receives one object after another, the smell of cement and debris spreads in the room. There are four plastic bags that remain from the life of your grandmother.
Pills – sleeping pills, one is absent. This gives hope to the granddaughter. This Schmilovts took it and took the hearing aid before going to bed. That she did not hear the hated sirens and peacefully, without fear. In this blow, even a shelter would hardly have a difference. “She always said: I am old and lived my life. Young people should focus on their lives. The fact that she died in this way is a symbol. Thus, the suggestions make sense for the death of their grandmother.
The wide master Hout sits in a black, dressed on the terrace of his apartment. Good summer day. On the day of the attack, she wrote her grandmother as always, everything went well. This time there is no answer. “You hear something like that, but you never think this will happen to you.”
Her sister lives near the building. “We heard an explosion, my God, he was so close. The apartment shocked. ” When it ended, she saw a red sky. A friend who lives in the building of her grandmother is called her. “Come on quickly, come quickly, our house was amazed.”
Dana Suflet Master ran, tried to run between smoke and emergency services. When she stood in front of a high level, she considered damaged floors: one, two, three, four, five. And then again. And again. “Maybe I myself compensated. But the same number always came out. ” Smilovitz was like a second mother for her. Her own mother, the only daughter of Schmilov, died 24 years ago.
Her last memory of her, says Dana Suflet Master, is a cheerful woman. Smart, frank, independent, longing for knowledge itself at the age of 95. She dominated five languages, some of them taught themselves. She loved Europe and her culture. And trips. Many trips that you and your family have made over the years.
Family photos, tablets, a list of purchases: much was not found from a destroyed apartment
Photo:
Serena Bilancer
“She and my grandfather were everywhere when my grandfather was still alive. Grandfather was driving, and she was sitting in a passenger seat with a card in her hand, ”the master recalls. “I am sure that when my grandmother took her last breath, my grandfather was already waiting for her in Audi with an open door. I hope you are traveling together now. ”
Super Savta, Supermam, I called the Shirly Hout Master. Because she could never understand what power she could simply accept and smile at everything that happened to her. In childhood, at the age of ten or eleven, Schmilovts was with her parents in the Romanian camp at a forced labor camp in the Nazi era. After that, she barely talked about time there. Maybe she was too young to understand. Maybe she did not want to remember horror.
After 1945, she lived in Bucharest, fell in love, received her daughter. She had a sister -blonde, who then moved to Germany for her medical research. The family experienced anti -Semitism in Romania, but a certain desire for a home continent remained in the life of Schmilovts.
In Israel, the surviving Holocaust felt safe, even if she preferred to move to New York as a passionate globutrotter. Instead, Schmilovts first arrived in a small city on the coast of Israel during the war in Yom Kipur, and then in Tikva Petah, worked as a chemist in the hospital and installed a new house.
We heard an explosion, my God, it was so close. The apartment was trembling
The master of Dana Suflet, the granddaughter of the murder, lives near the house with which the Iranian rocket suffered
Despite the loss, the wide master Hout sees an attack on Iran as necessary. “We are fighting and doing this for the rest of the world. Maybe it’s worth it, and our children will grow up in a better place. ” How many people in Israel are considering the war as a struggle between good and evil. According to the survey, 83 percent of the Jewish Israelis support the attack on Iran. Although it is not clearly proven that Iran actually worked on an atomic bomb, many Israelis of Iran still feel threatening. This may be the result of Iran’s aggressive rhetoric, partly from Israeli propaganda.
This is almost 1 hour of the day. In the segul cemetery. Under the scorching sun, two rabbis in a white shirt and black trousers now slide with a stretcher with the corpses of Schmilovts along the clearly endless streets of the cemetery, on which hundreds of clogging go out. Friends and relatives of Smilovita run behind them. Passing the multi -colored graves of soldiers who died in many wars, from the graves of people who, like Schmilovs, experience the Holocaust.
To the last place of recreation of Schmilovts. The rabbi allowed his surrounded body to slide into the grave, then seal the hole and shed it to the ground. Then the grandchildren grab the holy land further. This is how this provides a Jewish tradition. The rabbi sings ritual songs, Adonai, God, always sounds on an orphan.
Granddaughter of Suflet Master looks at the side, in the void, leaning against the tombstone, a chin on his hand. A sad look, to the rows of graves and to high buildings that form the silhouette of tel -Avivs. Fighters fly deep above the cemetery, roar at a distance. The ceasefire between Israel and Iran has just begun.
