[Cz-L] Rathausstrasse 23 .

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Here I was born on Rathausstrasse 23.

My " Babe ".

 My maternal grandmother was the Babe.

     The " groisse Babe ".

  She came from Boyan before the turn of the century.

   She actually had a name – Hudie Rifke ( Hudie for Yehudith ) .

   Everybody had double names at that time .

   But nobody in the family called her by name .

     The date of her birth was a mystery .

    Even she wouldn’t know.

    She could read only Yiddish and had only one book . The Taitsch.

   This was a Yiddish translation of the Bible for women.

   She spoke fluently the local Ruthenian dialect (nobody of the family
did).

             She had a brother and two sisters.

 Welvel was a tramway conductor and perished in Transnistria.

  Anna emigrated to Germany lived in Frankfurt and was never heard of
after the war.

  Rosa went to Argentina .

   By that time she lived on the Rathausstrasse 23 across

    the Palace Hotel .

    She gave birth to ten children out of which only three survived.

   My mother , my aunt and my uncle.

 Babe always had money .

She was good in money affairs . She was a financial know-all.

  At a time she held the checkroom of the town National Theatre - a very
lucrative

  business until one day a mink coat went missing. A very expensive coat
too.

   Babe had to pay.

At that time Wall Street crashed and she lost all her money

 so she had to sell the Rathausstrasse apartment and move to a more modest

  one on the Russischegasse.

    This happened somewhere in 1934 when I was 2 years old.

    From Rathausstrasse I remember nothing but every time we passed

  that building mother would say with a sigh : "Here you were born " .

  Hardy
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