Re: [Cz-L] Re: Bathing in the Prut

Below are some thoughts about the Prut from the memoirs of my mother,
Pearl Spiegel Fichman, Before Memories Fade. At the time she writes of
here (the early and mid 1930's) she and her family lived on the
Mehlplatz / Rudolfplatz / Piata Dacia:

Our town was rightfully proud of an electric
streetcar, referred to as the tramway, which had cars going in one
direction: North- South. You couldn't use it much if you did not happen to =
live
exactly in the area where it ran. Nevertheless it played a pivotal role in=
 
running towards the railroad station and further, on its last stop, to the=
 
river Prut.

The Prut meant a great deal to us, especially to the young. It was our
summer recreation. The sandy beaches along both banks were adequately
built up with booths, where one changed clothes, kept the sandwiches and
fruit for lunch. All this made it possible to spend summer days
bathing, swimming, sunning, reading, playing ball, flirting, romancing, dis=
cussing -
just enjoying life. This was often the essence of one's summer vacation.

Astride the Prut stood the bridge with no particular name. It connected
Czernovitz with many outlying villages and small towns, known nowadays
as 'shtetls'.

pp. 17-18

In the days before radios and weather reports, nobody knew what weather to =
expect.
Once we went to the Prut; [older brother] Bernie took [older sister]
Sali and me along. In the middle of the day a severe thunderstorm caught us=
 
unawares. People crowded onto a pavilion and some took refuge under the woo=
den
structure, below the stairs.

When Bernie saw that press of people, he called us to stand outside, in
the rain, rather than in a place that might collapse. And it did. People
were injured, one woman was killed and we escaped unscathed. We had a smart
brother who was about 16 years old then.

p.21


Eytan Fichman, AIA
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M


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From: GERHARDRODICA_at_aol.com
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Sent: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:37 pm
Subject: [Cz-L] Re: Bathing in the Prut



Re: Bathing in the Prut.

I remember we used to take a bus to the "Gaenseheufel" beach (named
"Lido"
under Romanian rule), I forgot where it ran from in the city. Next to
it
was a bigger beach (Schwimmbad) named "Venetia" in Romanian, and there
was
also a "free" beach, the name of which I forgot. The Gaenseheufel had
cabins, a good restaurant, and you had to use Badeschuhe to get into
the water
because of the pebbles.
The photographs are very realistic, I remember in the summer of 1944
when
everything was wild,no services or cabins, we used to swim to the
place on
the photograph, there was a spot which was deep enough for diving.

Gerhard Schreiber


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