Re: [Cz-L] Town of Kotzman/Kotzmann/Cotmeni from Miriam Taylor on 2006-10-16 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:11:23 -0500
To: Adam Muntner <adam_at_ninethree.net>, Czernowitz <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

> Does anyone on the list have family links to town of Kotzman/Kotzmann/Cotmeni
> which is north of Czernowitz, has anyone who has been over there been to that
> town, or run into anything about it outside what is available on the web?
>
> Best regards
> Adam
> Phoenix, AZ
>

Dear Adam,

The town of Kotzman is now called Kicman.
I do not have or ever had relatives there, but my maternal grandmother
was born and her family lived in the village of Klyvodin, which is north
of Kicman. Kicman was the district center and I have a document from about
1905 which was issued in Kitsman. Jews from Klyvodin were buried in Kicman,
so both in 2003 and 2004 I went there to look for the graveyard. An
apartment complex was built on top of the graveyard, so only some of the
gravestones are visible. If you go there, it seems that everyone knows where
the graveyard is, because it is so centrally located. You could also pay
someone in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), who can read Hebrew or Yiddish to go
there and look for the names you are interested in.

Regards,
Mimi
Received on 2006-10-16 08:56:00