[Cz-L] Re: Immigration

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

> I have a question on your original 1910 Census record. Why would
Romania do a census in Czernowitz
> in 1910 when it was part of the Austrian Hungarian Empire?
>
> I would think Chaim's 1919 document would be part of a census that was
taken after Romania took over
> Bukowina at the end of WW I .
>
> regards
>
> Carl
>
>
>
Romania did not do a census in Czernowitz or the Bukowina in 1910. This
census was done by the Austrians. The Romanians used it after WW1 to
determine whom they would give Romanian citizenship to. Only those who had
been permanent residents of the Bukowina, received Romanian citizenship.

Later, during WW2, the Romanians distinguished between Jews who had been
residents of Romania before 1919 (those they protected) and those who had
become Romanian citizens because of the annexation of the Bukowina and
Besarabia, whom they deported to Transnistria.

After WW1 the Romanians were very glad to have their country enlarged by
about 20%, they were not so happy to inherit a quite large Jewish
population.

Mimi
Received on 2006-05-02 13:21:07