[Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: February 06, 2009

If we did not all have dreams and wishes we would not have survived what we=
 did survive. gerta w


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> From: Czernowitz Genealogy and History digest <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.=
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> Subject: czernowitz-l digest: February 06, 2009
> To: "czernowitz-l digest recipients" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 10:34 PM
> CZERNOWITZ-L Digest for Friday, February 06, 2009.
>
> 1. Re: [Cz-L] Cemetery
> 2. Re: [Cz-L] Cz. Jewish cemetery
> 3. RE: [Cz-L] Cemetery
> 4. [Cz-L] Your name on sidewalk stones in Czernowitz
> 5. [Cz-L] Supplication
> 6. Re: [Cz-L] Cz. Jewish cemetery
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Cemetery
> From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:00 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
> 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
>
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