Re: [Cz-L] Street market

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Yes there was terrible poverty even in Czernowitz and vicinity,
in "the good old days". During world ware one, there was famine
and many of the people who had been young children during that time
suffered from "Rachitis". Among my photographs on the "ehpes" site,
taken in the late thirties, there is one, showing a beggar on the
Herrengasse. I gave it the title "Auch Czernowitz", meaning
also Czernowitz. During the winter of 1942, I remember a teenage girl
leading a horse and cart piled with firewood, which she was trying
to sell, she had no shoes, her feet were wrapped in rags and that is
how she walked through the snow.
After the war, I remember seeing former soldiers who's legs
had been amputated, standing on the stumps of their legs, on little
wooden platforms on wheels and moving by pushing off with their hands
on the pavement. I also remember the used clothes market to which
everyone went, either to buy or to sell some of their clothes.
The streets were never swept with roses. There always were
some very poor people in Czernowitz, poetry, lofty ideals and
pretentious snobbery not withstanding.

By the way, does anyone remember where the used clothes market was?
Was it on the Mehlplatz?

Mimi
    

> Hi, These pictures are really heartbreaking, not only the women but
> those bags all around them, one gets the feeling that they carry their
> world in bags.
> There probable was always such poverty around us but, I was either too
> young or it was not taken as a still and I didn't meet it.
> Shabbat Shalom,
> anny
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Reisch <bir1_at_nysaes.cornell.edu> wrote:
>> Quite similar to my picture from Radautz, 1998:
>> http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/radauti/pics98.html
>> (Scroll down to "Chickens for Sale".)
>>
>> Bruce
>>

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