Fw: Revisiting times nad places... from Lucca Ginsburg on 2003-12-22 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Lucca Ginsburg <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:49:56 +0200
To: czernowitz czernowitz <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-To: lucca99_at_netvision.net.il

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 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
 <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black">From: <A
 href="mailto:lucca99_at_netvision.net.il" title=lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>Lucca
 Ginsburg</A>
 To: <A href="mailto:karlmetsch_at_msn.com"
 title=karlmetsch_at_msn.com>CARLOS HECKER</A>
 Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:47 PM
 Subject: Re: Revisiting times nad places...

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 Dear Mr. Hecker,
 Since I have a son in Frankfurt where I visit him
 often, we started out on an organized tour from there. Actually the tour
 started from Muenchen via Frankfurt, where they picked us up from our hotel
 (we were about 8 Israelis).
 The company called "Ukraina Tours" consists of just
 one driver and his wife, a former Czernowitz girl. Although the trip was a
 bit more expensive than usual, we had a perfectly organized journey with all
 the trimmings. Anna, the young woman, got up at 5 to travel to Rosh to bring
 us their famous cheese with freshly baked dark bread.Just one
 example.....
 This in addition to being a wonderful guide, knowing
 the whole of Bucovina like the back of her hand, talking fluently German,
 Rumanian and Ukrainean and having a delightful sense of humor as well as
 patience without end..

 If our socalled "homecoming" wouldn't have been so
 sad, if we wouldn't have realized how neglected and in what shape our former
 rich Rumania has become - it would have been a marvelous
 adventure.

 But, as promised, I will write soon about this our
 emotional return to our birth city..
 If you are interested in "Ukraina Tours" I still have
 their leaflets somewhere and I will be pleased to give you all
 details.
 I wish you a Happy Holiday Season,
 Lucca





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 <A href="mailto:karlmetsch_at_msn.com" title=karlmetsch_at_msn.com>CARLOS
 HECKER</A>
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">To: <A
 href="mailto:lucca99_at_netvision.net.il"
 title=lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>lucca99_at_netvision.net.il</A>
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 PM
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Subject: Re: Revisiting times nad
 places...

 Very interesting. Can I ask you how you planned your trip to
 Czernowitz ThroughRumania, ukraine, didyouhave a local
 agent ?

 Thank you so much
 Carlos Metsch Hecker
 Looking for Gronich, Metsch, Hecker

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 style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; COLOR: black; FONT: 10pt Arial">From:
 Lucca Ginsburg
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003
 4:24 AM
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">To: czernowitz czernowitz
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 One of the members of the group asked the other day if
 someone can give details as to the location of the Meisler
 School.
 I will try.
 When entering the Landhausgasse from the Hauptstrasse
 and walking along until the end of the street, one reaches the last
 building, which is the corner house of Landhausgasse and Nikolausgasse.
 It was (is) a plain, unadorned building, a rarity among the many proud
 Baroque buildings of Czernowitz.
 We had such happy childhoods there, we were taught by
 a superb team of teachers, and in addition to Rumanian and German, most
 of us had a working knowledge of French by the time we were 10 years
 old. We were taught, at a young age, the correct approach to study which
 we put to good use in later life.

 Visiting Czernowitz again after many, many years, my
 friend Anita and I walked along the Landhausgasse in order to
 takea look at our school. We found it. Practically unchanged. The
 only thing which was strange...the entrance, the door through which we
 had entered the school each day, ....had disappeared. We walked around
 the building again and again and found no way through which one could
 enter it!
 "Maybe one goes in through the roof!" joked my
 friend....
 Checking again and again we found a small door from
 the Nikolausgasse, hardly noticeable. We finally walked in and looked
 around. So changed, so neglected, it seemed another place altogether and
 no soul around except for a hungry cat.
 Anita and I walked out again. Silent, sad and
 disappointed. But what did we really expect?
 Sincere greetings to you all,
 Lucca.

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