Re: [Cz-L] Galina 's interactive virtual museum

As I mentioned before I appreciate very much the work that has been done,
keeping in mind the fact that these people were aware of the heritage and
tried to preserve it despite the hostile authorities. I have met some of
them here in Israel. One of them was my former family Doctor who came as
young girl to Czernowitz with her parents after the war, and left in the
seventies. She told me about part of the difficulties they had sustaining a
proper Jewish life. Nevertheless I would like to elaborate on the fact how
much such a comparatively small community invested in the welfare especially
of the needy and disabled which can be seen from the establishments that are
shown. As a young boy I was not aware about all this but in some peculiar
way I came to know about the shelter for the homeless or in German "Asyl" on
what was known to us as the Kuczurmarergasse. When the Soviets entered in
1940 my father was for some reason defined as one who comes under paragraph
39 which in short meant that he and his dependants (my mother and I) have to
be deported to Siberia. We went into hiding and have selected the "Asyl" as
our hiding place with the logic (that proved itself as right) that the
EN.KA.VE.DE (the later KGB) will not look in such a place for the "enemies
of the revolution". I stayed there for a short period before I went to stay
with my grandparents that lived not far. My mother went to live with some
relatives, and my father stayed hidden most of the time till the German
entered and he was relieved to see them. How he learned the reality about
the Nazis is another story. Anyway during his and our stay I came to know
the real inhabitants (inmates) of this institution and I think you can
imagine the variety of characters that live in such a place. Only now after
seeing the "Asyl" in this virtual museum I remembered it and understand the
scope of the welfare functions in Jewish Czernowitz. By the way, we paid for
our stay and even contributed some more and our, and later my father's,
food was supplied by our family.
 Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel

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From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>; "CZERNOWITZ-L"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Galina 's interactive virtual museum

> Dear All,
> There are many shortcomings in the virtual Museum:
> 1. As Jerry pointed out the streets are the new Ukrainean ( written in
> latin)
> but still not familiar with old-timers.
> 2. So is the map.
> 3. The Index is in Russian.
> But yet the Museum speaks to us : All the Shils and Jewish connected
> places are mentioned
> are there . Places long forgotten are brought to life.
> Remember , this site is the work of russian-speaking folksman who
> settled in Cz.
> after WW2 and left in the seventies or later.
> As many were born in Cz. it is their home.
> They share and are proud of our common heritage .
> Hardy
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