Bine venit, Fogadtatás, Wilkommen, Shalom, Welcome, Welcome,
Dear Alice, Draga Scui,
Your mind’s been gone a few days, and today we say goodbye to your, once so beautiful body. I am so grateful, that I met you and that you have transformed me into a global citizen. You're a special woman with instruction manuel and if you read this well, you get access to her private space! That's not always easy, but Alice thinks you should invest in a relationship and have to fight for it. Scui is a lady with a lot’s of love in her soul, she loves to share this with people. She likes a lot of people around her and I love her! On our first date in the kibbutz I brought her in the wheelbarrow to the canteen, she liked it so much, i had to do it every day. Since 1978 she is my wife and enchanted me with her mysterious aura and her magical way to let you into her world of thought. We were married on the bicycle with all the following cars behind us. If would name all the superlatives about your nature and essence it would take a long time and you do not like TMI! All those present know what I mean. Three things I still have to mention, Alice is a very active woman who was nick-named by her grandmother, Hangya [ant], a world-class cook and a real Jewish mamele! For our two daughters, Roxana and Sarah she is a mother unprecedented, priceless. Her daughters are everything to her and she has ensured that there are two girls who hold their life in their own hands. She gave many kick’s under the ass to make sure the programs were completed and that a good future lay’s ahead. They are inspired by Alice to be always open to the new and / or unknown.
Alice was born in Romania, in Brasov, Transylvania and grew up in the Strada de Mijloc 13. Viorica, her mother was Jewish and her father Victor, Romanian Orthodox, with the result that her childhood was punctuated with different rituals and traditions, which has been of great influence in her life. Her view of other people, nations was always open, honest and interested. This was also due to the multicultural status of Brasov, Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Jews and Roma live there. No wonder that her talent for languages comes from here, she spoke 3 languages from childhood and when she, at Honterus school learned English, she quickly got the hang of it and started tutoring English to fellow students, teaching, was already early there.
Romania, Israel, the Netherlands, West Berlin, the countries where she left her mark. We were in Israel, witnessed the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, helped to break down the wall in Berlin, lived with the Bedouin’s in the Sinai, were often behind the Iron Curtain and were traveling without a plan criss-cross over Europe. You are a former student of the Honterus gymnasium in Brasov, a former student of the Technion University in Haifa, former student of the Ulpan in Kibbutz Gat, graduated in Germanistik / Amerikanistik the FU in West Berlin and followed the teacher training at the university in Amsterdam. Mr. Geert Captains called a day after she had received her degree with the question if she wanted to work on the Barlaeus Gymnasium. That’s what happened and Alice went with pleasure to teach her children well, in the beginning she gave even ICT lesson’s to the 1st classes and made sure there came projectors in the classrooms. Her teaching style is unconventional and textbooks are a necessary evil, though grammar is her specialty. You learn a language by speaking and reading it, so in her classroom German was spoken. So she picked German tourists from Leidseplein, which as mistery guest’s, sat in the classroom and conducted discussions with the students. Literature was accessed through music, such as "das Perfume " by Peter Süsskind. Rammstein suddenly popped around the room with the song "du Riechst so Gut '. There was a lot of singing, because you remember everything better, the German Sesame Street song "der, die, das '' was a solid lesson part. I ask the students to sing it. She is a mentor and has assisted many students in problematic situations, she was always there for them. It was not always nice and easy at school, she had twice a burnout, but she always came back, because she couldn’t leave her children. The sense of duty and perseverance of Alice, I can only admire. She dragged herself early this year every morning to school, just to be able to teach. This teaching was mostly watching a German movie or read anything. The trip to Amsterdam already had cost too much energy and the doctors were very surprised that she went to work every day, her blood levels were so bad, it was a wonder that she could get up all. Alice does not give up, she goes on to till the bitter end. And I can tell you that the end is very bitter!
I thank all the speakers for their nice words, I thank you all for your presence. The large turnout gives me and my daughters a very warm feeling in our hearts.