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A touching story
We were touched when the following note reached us about slipping out of communist-held Czechoslovakia — and leaving a beloved nativity behind...
"I have been browsing your website now and then, but your email got me there to see the new wonderful coloring pages.
It got me, I may owe you a story, if the notion is every crèche has one.
"I was born in Prague and lived there for 30 years. As
far back as I remember there was a crèche under our Christmas tree. My
aunt had one too and pretty one, but I liked ours better. When I was
child my father took me on advent Sundays to different churches to see
crèches. I grew and I wouldn't pass a church around Christmas without
checking out what crèche is on the display.
"When I was leaving
Czechoslovakia, back then under the communist regime, I took only
necessary things for a short trip. I did everything not to draw an
attention to myself and slipped out on Christmas day in midnight train,
in hope of softer scrutiny. It worked. It took some time to myself and
my husband to get to US and start new life.
"There were couple of things I wanted from the old country: My
mother's recipes for her Christmas cookies and Czech Christmas bread,
some of my fairy tale book collection, my old photographs and our family
crèche. I did not get any. My mother died sooner than I could ask for
it. There was nobody else willing to help just to mail my stuff to me.
"Years
later I found the recipes in Viennese cook book, the old snapshots lost
their importance because the new ones become old very fast; and I got
some Czech fairy tales from my husband's family. I did not hope ever
even see my crèche.
"I discovered Crèchemania.com about 2001,
shortly after I got my first PC. I stumbled upon it by accident. I was
looking for crèches, but under a different name like "Bethlehem," "paper
Bethlehem," "printable nativity,"
and so on.
"I was
determined, if I won't get one I will make one out of parts. But it is
not so easy. What I downloaded and printed from crèchemania looked
better. My favorite is The Children Crèche, Post, and Rams, right after.
I was happy to find something that well replaced my own crèche.
"To
have a little paper crèche under the Christmas tree became important to
me, especially after my daughter was born. I must say she likes it now,
too.
"Well, that would have been a nice enough end. Then one day I
checked out what's new in Crèchemania and there it was—my old crèche
staring at me from the web page! The Czechoslovakian Fold-out Nativity. I
saw it first on the Milan Zabransky page: the same red, waxy paper,
behind the window and the star, broken on mine, and replaced by a
home-made one.
"It is unbelievable there is one more like the one
we had. It is a good warm feeling to pop in on crechemania.com an see it
there on display.
"I am very private person, and this little
story is just a small thank you for all the crèches here. It is good
just to look at them, like when I was little, walking with my father
through Christmas-town.
"Thanks, and Have a Wonderful Merry Christmas!"
— Rose |
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