Re: [Cz-L] Cemetery

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Under Ceaucescu, in the centers of many Romanian towns old buildings were
destroyed in order to make room for Mussolini style office buildings and
ugly apartment houses. This is true not only in Bucharest, but also in many
big and small towns.

In the last 500 years, Czernowitz was part of Romania for less than 25
years; from 1918 till 1940 and from 1941 till 1944. Only in the last three
years of this period, was the majority of the population Romanian.
In 1917-18, most of the Jewish population together with the Ruthenian
population was against the annexation to Romania.

No amount of wishful thinking, will change the borders of Romania and the
Ukraine. But if wishes could be fulfilled, I would wish that there had never
been a WW1, or a WW2 and that Czernowitz would have remained part of an
enlightened Austro-Hungary, with all national, ethnic and religious groups
having equal rights.

An extra bonus would have been that most of us, like our grand- and
great-grant-parents, would have lived on the Tempelgasse, Karolinengasse and
Dreifaltigkeitsgasse, we could have met on the Ringplatz or in one of the
Cafes and argued face to face.

Mimi

> Hi, don't think so.Ceaucescu demolished a good bit of bukarest but not the
> outlying towns...i checked with a Romanian lady doctor who is working in
> London and she confirms. Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bounce-3544274-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of David Glynn
> Sent: 05 February 2009 07:54
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> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Cemetery
>
> Of course, had this happened much of the city would probably have been
> demolished by Ceausescu.
>
> David
>
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