Re: [Cz-L] Old Jewish cemetry in Czernowitz

Mimi,
> "I very much doubt that there were any Jews living in Czernowitz before
> WW2,
> who's ancestors had lived there before 1778. Had there been any
> Czernowitzers
> with this much "Yiches", in typical Czernowitz fashion, they would have
> let
> everyone know about it."

  This is what you wrote,

   Now ,suddenly:

> Sad to think that even the old Czernowitzers neglected to maintain and
> preserve the old Jewish cemetery. In 1867, the new Jewish cemetery, the
> one
> on Zelena street which we are trying to restore and maintain now, was
> still
> new and I suppose that the ancestors of most Jewish Czernowitzers were
> interred in the old cemetery. But by 1927, 60 years later, the relatives
> and
> descendants of those interred in the old cemetery, must have been a
> smaller
> percentage of the Jewish population or cared less to preserve the graves
> of
> their ancestors.
>
> Mimi

      If they had no ancestors buried there why should they care ?
       Or did they ancestors have ? Buried there ?
        Hardy
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