Re: [Cz-L] Fw: 1st November 2010

From: frieda tabak <frieda_tabak_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:08:44 -0700 (PDT)
To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu, Lucca <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
Reply-to: frieda tabak <frieda_tabak_at_yahoo.com>

Dearest Lucca

Even though I was not born in Czernowitz, I consider myself a Czernowitzer, and your blog brought back such both sweet and painful memories.

I was born in Lipcani, Bessarabia. My mother, however, considered herself a Czernowitzer (even though she was born in Roznov, Galizia) who "married down" to Bessarabia. We, therefore, spent much time with my uncle, Dr Salo Koffler, in Czernowits, where, before the war, my mother had her favorite dressmaker as well as her favorite children's dressmaker where most of my dresses were made. All important shopping was done in Czernowitz.

In 1940 we were "liberated" by Soviets from the increasing antisemitic Roumanian regime. It took just a few weeks before our "liberators" "freed" us of all our possessions. My parents, they said, were capitalists. They confiscated our house and everything within it and we fled to Czernowitz where my uncle allowed us a room in his apartment at Stefaniegasse #5.

We were among the very fortunate to have escaped Transnistria and so I consider Czernowitz my home. I have been wanting to go back, yet, every time I am about ready to go, something is holding me back. Your blog ha rekidled that yearning. Thanks.

Frieda Weinschenker Tabak

 

 
 
--- On Mon, 11/1/10, Lucca <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il> wrote:

From: Lucca <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
Subject: [Cz-L] Fw: 1st November 2010
To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Date: Monday, November 1, 2010, 7:14 AM

This is copy of my weeky blog to the Jerusalem Post.
On the way to you, upon Hardy's recommendation.
Lucca

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