[Cz-L] Hauptstrasse Mystery

<x-flowed>From: jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:43:44 -0700
Subject: [Cz-L] Hauptstrasse Mystery


Czernowitzers:

Seems to me that this never got to the Cz-L list, so I'm sending Bruce
Wexler's question and associated correspondence to our Cz-L group for
comment. The question is WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HAUPTSTRASSE?
jerome

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BW's original email to me:

Jerome,
I have been looking at the list of streets. I have heard many years ago that
my grandparents or great-grandparents lived on Hauptstrassse. Now I see the
map and sure enough there is a Hauptstrasse. My question is, why is this
main street (literally) not listed on the list of streets on the
spreadsheet. Is it not there anymore, or is it listed with a different name?
Thanks
Bruce Wexler
Jackson, NJ

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Associated correspondence:

Bruce of New Jersey:

I hope you will pose this question to <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu> too.

On Jerome's Cz-L web site, the map named "totalmap.gif" lists the
street as Enzenberghauptstrasse, so it might help others if you can
say where you found a map with the street name shorted to
Hauptstrasse.

Thanks and good luck!

Bruce [Reisch]


>
>Subject: Hauptstrasse, Czernowitz
>From: AJS1PRES_at_aol.com
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:34:32 -0400
>X-Message-Number: 2
>
>Dear Group,
>
>Many years ago when I first became interested in Czernowitz, I asked my
mother
>if she knew what street they lived on in Czernowitz (she left there at the
age
>of four months). She informed me that her mother had told her Hauptstrasse.
>All these years later I look and find Hauptstrasse on the old map, right
off
>Ringplatz. However, it is not listed as such on the spreadsheet of streets.
>Bruce Reisch thinks that perhaps "Enzenberghauptstrasse", which bears the
>name of a city official disliked by the Jews, was shortened to Hauptstrasse
>by the Jews, yet it is refered to as Hauptstrasse on the map.
>Can anyone confirm that these two streets are one and the same?
>
>Thanks
>Bruce WExler
>Jackson, NJ
>AJS1PRES_at_AOL.com
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