Lusia Fuchs

This is my sister Lusia Jawetz. The photo was taken in Cernauti in 1945 - she was 21 years old. Lusia was born in 1924 in Hlyboka. She graduated from the Fine Arts high school in Cernauti. Although we got our house back after we returned from evacuation, father decided that we should leave, thinking of us, the children. He knew we would have no future there. He went to Bucharest, where he knew Lotar Radaceanu, and he gave him a repartition to Arad. The prefect Vostinar from Arad gave his recommendation to UTA [Uzinele Textile Arad - Arad Textiles Plants]; there was probably a vacancy. My father worked during the first year as a stationary department inspector, and then he was head of the statistics department. He got along well with everybody. My parents lived in Arad from 1946. My sister Lusia was a clerk in Arad, at UTA and at the Jewish community in Arad. She also got married here, in the synagogue. Her husband, Andrei Fuchs, was a bookkeeper at UTA. They had a boy, Stefan, who's an electronics engineer in Israel. She managed to emigrate around 1982. She enlisted with her daughter-in-law, Agi. Her husband died here in the 1960s. She left with all her family and lived in Tel Aviv, where she was a pensioner. Lusia has two grandchildren: Roni and Dana. I've always kept in touch with my sister. She came very often to visit us, every year. Every time she stayed for two to three weeks with us. In 1999 she suffered a severe accident: she was run over by a car and was hospitalized. The last time she was in Romania was in 2000. I talked to her on the phone two days before she died: on 26th February 2001, in Tel Aviv.