Re: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

Dear all
 Until a few years ago I lived under the impression that a very small number
of the pre ww2 Czernowitzer (Bukovinian) Jews stayed behind and didn't leave
at the first chance they had. Well seems I've been wrong. I'm discovering
some of them on our list and I would be very glad if they would share how
life was there after 1946. I can tell you only what I know and that is that
every one I knew ran like crazy on the first opportunity. Some even were
caught and sent to Donbass (a "famous" coal mine) and either perished there
or returned very ill. Another fact I know for sure is that those that were
deported to Siberia in the first period of the soviet occupation survived
and wanted to return were not permitted to do it.
 Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel

----- Original Message -----
From: "alexander rosner" <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>; "Miriam Taylor"
<mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>;
"Arthur Rindner" <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 5:45 PM
Subject: AW: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

Hardy,

yes, it is sometimes funny to read such posts, while they have a true core.

I can speak about the 60th and beginning of the 70th. During the 50th I was
too
small to realize such things.

During the described time Czernowitz was not a closed city, not at all.
I could remember several cars with foreign plates. Sometimes we were
guessing
from which countries they were.
At the beginning we thought that "D" was standing for "Diplomat", until we
discovered that the drivers always spoke German.
We saw sometimes "CH", "F", "USA", "CDN", "A", etc. Also cars from Poland,
Romania, Czechoslovakia, etc.

I remember very well two Czech cars driving like crazies trough Czernowitz
on
August 20 (?), 1968.
Later same night I saw military vehicles driving the same direction through
Czernowitz.

By that time we knew from the radio what happened.

Foreign people always needed permissions to go through the country with the
description of the exact route. This was normal.

We could travel without any permission through the most of the USSR.
Some areas were closed to everybody without a special document, among them
lots
of areas within few kilometers from the state border

and all areas of special military interest.

Our border to Romania was not a closed area till August 1968 - then a strip
of
10 to 20 kilometers became a closed area for a while.

I know that after the WWII there was a time when travels were restricted and
"Propusk" was required. I never saw such a thing and never needed.

Alex

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