Looking for Brucha Marcovici
A brief note written by my great-aunt Henrietta, under the photograph of a young woman lying on a chaise, identified her as Marco’s much younger sister Brucha (Beatrice)
Aunt Henrietta explained that Brucha/Beatrice Marcovici was Marco's "much younger" sister. Brucha would have lived in Iași, Romania. i wonder if the young girl in the family photo was Brucha, with the big bow in her hair.
I have been encouraged to look for spaces and absences, as well as discoveries in my research (Charlotte Schallié, personal communication, May 30, 2022). Honouring my relatives is concerned with discovery, but also creating memory where there is none. Deep in my imagination, I am envisioning Brucha, a beautiful woman, perhaps peering at us from a chaise inIași Romania. History has not preserved her journey. Perhaps she traveled to New York, or Israel and I just have not yet found her. I don’t know her story, but I see a spark of liveliness in her and hope she kept that spark despite the known devastation of June, 1941 in Iași, Romania.
