[Cz-L] Snow and cold in Czernowitz

I too have some very nice memories of snow and cold in Czernowitz.
In the winter of 1943- 44 and 1944-45 I often went "rodeln" on the steep
Veteranengasse, on which children still toboggan in present day Chernivtsi.
The winters were very cold, the lowest temperature was recorded in the
winter of 1940 - 41, when the temperature went down to -40 degrees. It so
happens that -40 is the same in Centigrade and Fahrenheit.
I also have a very sad memory; either in the winter of '43 or '44, one day
when I was sitting by the window, I saw a young peasant woman, leading
a horse which was pulling a cart heaped with fire-wood. She was calling for
customers to buy the wood. Her feet were wrapped in rags, she wore no shoes.
I had never seen or imagined such poverty.

This too was Czernowitz.

Mimi
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