Re: [Cz-L] Navigating in Old Czernowitz.

Hardy is right that we did not know the street names in Romanian.
I did not even know the name in Romanian, of the street on which
I lived. But I did get lost in Czernowitz, twice. Both times on
the Rusische Gasse; once in 1945 and once in 2010. Both times I had
to ask passers-by for directions. Last time I asked in English and
did get an answer in English, also a handdrawn map.
Die Rusische Gasse became strada Romana and now is back to being
Ruska Ulitza.

Mimi

Quoting HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>:

> All streets names were in Rumanian we not too familiar with.
> We knew the streets by the German name which did nor appear anywhere.
> We had no maps or GPS or navigators.
> Nobody got lost in Czernowitz.
> Maybe somebody fell into an open manhole in a moonless night.
> Most people you knew lived in your vicinity.
> If you needed somebody from a different part of town you went
> to the Mehlplatz or the Ham and stopped the first person you
> met ( 90 % chance jewish) and asked him : "Wi woint Zizesbeisser ?"
> ( where lives...)
> "Der mit der Kile oder der wus hicket ?" ( with the hernia or
> the one who stutters ?). He would show you....
> This is how we navigated. Hardy

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