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36 FROM OUR FULBRIGHTERS Devora (center) with mother Deena Stein and uncle Amir Mansbacher at the Weissensee cemetery. THE FUNNEL • VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2004 direction of what I assumed was his grave, I said, wir haben dich nicht vergessen, wie schön so nah zu dir zu sein nach so viel Zeit. In Hebrew, I said both a prayer of mourning and of renewal. And then I knew, we had to get a gravestone for Selmar—that is, to honor his life and dignify his death. This spring, over a half century later, a life that once breathed and loved was dignified with a small stone and a few words to say that we have not forgotten him. In March my family traveled to Berlin and we paid our respects to a man whose life enabled ours. It is my hope that while my family was here in Germany, they saw what I have seen here: a country that is far from what it was when Selmar last saw it. I hope they will see the land that Selmar loved, and that I, over half a century later, have also come to love. A report by Boyes Fellow Karen Radziner and Devora Rogers chronicling Devora’s experience getting a gravestone set for her great-grandfather, Selmar, aired in March on the English Program’s Living in Germany and Inside Europe. To listen to the report visit the Fulbright Website: www.fulbright.de/funnel/index. shtml. Selmar’s gravestone, written in three languages, reflects the complexity of the life and story of his family.
Life on the Mississippi Teaching German in Missouri by Anette Riess FROM OUR FULBRIGHTERS 37 Anette Riess is a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in German at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, for the 2003-2004 academic year. She sent the Funnel this snapshot of her life and work in St. Louis. Last fall, we went on a German retreat with our students. A group of students from St. Louis University joined us, so we were a funny group of people. At the entrance of the retreat every student had to “swear” on our German textbook, Kontakte, that he or she would only speak German for the next couple of days. And it worked! The students were just great. Here we are standing in front of some of the statues in the park of the retreat area. THE FUNNEL • VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2004
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