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SLAVA ISUSU CHRISTU! SLAVA NA VIKI BOHU! Hi Sharon Which side of the mountains did your family come from? The Slovakia side of the mountains did not do much cross stitch emboridery. It was mainly flat and running stitch. The Zakarpatia side does more cross-stitch with beautiful geometric patterns. You should try www.yevshan.com [ yevshan.com] they're from Canada and do carry a good deal of Zakarpatia style embroidery books. You could also do a search for Mary Kelley's books IN SEARCH OF THE GODDESS. She has written extensively about the embroidery of Central Europe and Russia and Ukraine. Much of what she has written concerns the use of ritual cloths. There should be patterns and color combos there also. Hope this helps.... mark 
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Mark,
I am reminded of the answer J. Michael Thompson gave to the folks who wanted to know which part of Ukraine his people came from. "The far west," said he, "the part by the Irish Sea."
I haven't the first clue which side of the mountains two of my grandparents came from, tho' they did live near/in the Carpathians. Another grandparent was born in Eishashok, Lithuania - check out the Holocaust Museum for pictures of daily life & people there in the 1920's. (The fourth was born in the US of German parents.) They were all Jews, as were my parents.
Barbara, I also don't know where to find patterns - I tend to chart my own. Check out the link Mark gave - it's likely to be a good one!
BTW, I understand completely about "those little glasses." I wear by-golly-I'm-trying-to-focals, and have probably done my last 18ct project...
Best,
Sharon
Sharon Mech, SFO
Cantor & sinner
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GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY TO HIM FOREVER! Hi Sharon! I must learn to NEVER answer emails before I have my morning OJ. The post I addressed to you should have been to Barbara. Sorry..... Sharon also wrote: '.... Another grandparent was born in Eishashok, Lithuania - check out the Holocaust Museum for pictures of daily life & people there in the 1920's..." Sharon, I have a copy of the wonderful PBS show THERE ONCE WAS A VILLAGE that was all about life in Eishashok and the woman who's grandmother took all of the pictures that are in Tower at the Holocaust Museum. I have seen the tower and the photos and they are incredible! It's a shame that I was not able to complete my visit to the Museum. There was a bomb threat called in the day I was there and we had to evacuate the building. I understand that Ed Asner and family as well as Lauren Bacall and family all have roots in this village. Sorry for the confusion but grateful to learn of this wonderful piece of information about your past. the least servant... mark 
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Mark,
I haven't seen the show - must check with the library. I believe the woman you are talking about is Yaffa Eliach. If you are ready for a riveting read, find a copy of "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust" which she collected, edited, whatever you want to call it.
One of the "smaller" stories recounted in this book is of a young Jewish boy in Krakow whose parents had entrusted him to their Catholic neighbors, who promised to raise him Jewish. Later, thinking "better" of their promise, they took him to the priest. Hearing the story, he refused to baptize the boy. That young priest now sits on the throne of Peter.
BTW, my grandmother once wrote to a distant cousin of mine that we had the Cossacks to thank for our lives. Seems they made life so impossible for Jews in Lithuania that her father packed up the family and came to America 30 years or so before the Nazis obliterated Eishashok.
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GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST!
GLORY TO HIM FOREVER!
Hi Sharon!
There was an interesting story in our local newspaper a few years ago. It concerned the large number of senior citizens going to visit psychaitrists (sp).
It's seems that many of these senior citizens we disturbed by the deaths of their parents and the events that followed. Most of them were given letters following their parents deaths and these letters told them their REAL names and that their real parents had been Jewish. They had been given to and raised by Polish families during the Holocaust.
It would be interesting to do some follow up work with these people.
Have a good weekend!
mark
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Dear Mark/Sharon,
Thanks for the tips. Wouldn't you know it, we're from the Slovakia side of the mountains and I stink at flat embroidery!
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The Carpathian Mountains separate Slovakia and Ukraine? That's news to me...
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Dear RichC,
Someone once said that Ukraine was the largest country in the world.
What with a border in the Carpathians and so many of its people in Siberia . . .
Alex
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