Re: [Cz-L] Re: building on north side of Ringplatz

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 This is the north side of the Ringplatz .
   Here was also the Leo Konig shop. Post cards etc.
     Blown up during the 1941 take over. Also some buildings on the
Postgasse.
       Not clear by whom and for what reason.
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Abraham Kogan" <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>; "'HARDY BREIER'"
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:43 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Re: building on north side of Ringplatz


> Does anyone remember exactly when the apartment building, on the north
> side
> of the Ringplatz was destroyed? Was it when the Germans were retreating in
> the early spring of 1944? There was a loud explosion some time that spring
> which was heard all over the city, even to the southern edges of the
> Volksgarten and caused windows to shatter. It was said that a truck loaded
> with ammunition had run out of fuel and that the retreating German
> soldiers
> set it on fire. Does anyone remember whether this is what caused the
> building on the north side of the Ringplatz to collapse?
>
> As far as I can remember the apartment building was still intact earlier
> on.
> It had a row of balconies with ornate metal railings on the second or
> third
> floor which as a child I was particularly impressed by.
>
> Mimi
>
>
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