AW: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

Yosef,

my patents, when asked how many old Czernowitzers are living in Czenowitz,
answered: maybe 2000 or more. This was including Jews from other towns in
Bukowina who now lived in Czernowitz, like my Grandparents, who originally were
from Storozhinetz.
There haven't been any statistics on it, but sometime one could here German talk
on the streets. In most cases there were Czernowitzer Jews talking German.
Almost all Germans from prewar Czernowitz left 1940 for Germany.

My parents were allowed to return from Kazakhstan end of 1946. They returned,
and with them lots of others who were deported to Kazakhstan.
Those in Siberia were allowed to return 1956. Some did return, some stayed in
Siberia where they already arranged their life.
Several Czernowitzers didn't return from their deportation to anywhere - they
didn't survive, specially those deported to the Amur region (close to the
Okhotsk sea).
There have been also people in Czernowitz who were in the Ghetto during the war
and still lived in the town.
Before we left in 1973 we even discovered a distant relative in our town, whom
we didn't meet before.

The life in Czernowitz was not much different from the life in other places in
USSR. The supply with fruits and vegetables was a little better than in many
other regions thanks to the markets where the Bukowinean villagers sold their
products. The political oppression was as everywhere.
Antisemitism was thriving. The university of Czernowitz was almost entirely
closed for Jews, so almost everybody who wanted to study went out of the Ukraine
to study in Russia, some in Siberia, where there have been good universities. I
myself went to Moscow.

In the 70th there was an opportunity to leave, and many left. Others left in
the beginning of the 90th.

If I would guess today I would say that maybe 20 or more Czernowitzers are still
living there.

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> Von: yosi-jerry <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
> An: alexander rosner <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de>; 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
> Gesendet: Dienstag, den 20. Juli 2010, 8:23:04 Uhr
> Betreff: 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
>
>

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