Speaking to One Another - The International Raoul Wallenberg ...

now occupied by riff-raff, he says “Damn, we didn’t even think about restoring one or two of them.”Restoration is a way of revealing a secret that is hidden from children, appropriating a history that hasbeen hidden, at least paying tribute to the ‘unity’ that some want to forget, and it is very important toKamil, just as the sewing machine that neighbors left while departing in 1915 has been handed downthrough the generations: “My grandfather’s father. They have a next door neighbor called Onnik. He issuch a good, sincere, close neighbor that after Onnik leaves, my grandfather’s mother Fatma cries forOnnik day and night. They loved each other that much. And there is also a very well known story. Theycertainly left hoping that they’d return. They entrusted many of their belongings to their neighbors. Asewing machine, a manual sewing machine, which was passed on to my grandfather. It passed on tomy mother’s father, my mother’s mother used it for years. Now it is in our house. Just a simple sewingmachine.”26