some thoughts

somehow i had not processed that the places my ancestors came from would not look the same 100 years later. i had visualized shetls, whereas we saw much more modern, if poor, towns...we could see thqt there were still peasants driving horse drawn carts, but also cars and trucks and tv antennas...about the only thing that one could visualize as it was a hundred years ago were the old synagogues...and of course the old cemeteries...we did see some old photos...the ones about the deportation as they call it were depressing.