RE: [Cz-L]Re: czernowitz-l digest: April 09, 2011

OK Andy...start ducking! I disagree for a very basic reason..your comment is like seeing a picture of the Roman remaining architecture like Titus's Arch etc and now not needing to go to Rome. It ain't the same!!!! When in Czernowitz I can touch and go in....I cannot do that in a picture!! Cornel

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Subject: [Cz-L]Re: czernowitz-l digest: April 09, 2011

Oh-oh! Here is where I open my mouth when, perhaps, I shouldn't, but I've got a
lot to say about the map, about Czernowitz, about all the rah rah over the town
with four names - and I can sum it all up with one word: Oy!

On this marvel of technology I found the house in which I was born. To
accomplish this I studied another map that had Romanian street names. I always
subscribed to the old adage of "When in Rome do as the Romans do." I didn't
know street names in German because they changed before I was born. I made a
sketch of the streets in my area, then compared the layout to that in the map
with the Cyrillic font and found the grand mansion that my grandmother built.
 Oy!

I then recalled Florea Ursuleanu, our houseboy in Cz. Later, under the
Communists, he was sent back to school and became an engineer in Transylvania.
He had written me in the 1960s thirty years after we left. He needed to visit
some relatives in Cz and obtained a visa and, while in Cz, he looked up our
house. At that point there were over 40 people living in it and, he informed,
not only had nothing been painted in the thirty years but nothing had been
washed!

I can say one very positive thing about this map that lets you tour a town. It
has saved me a trip because I can think of hundreds of places that I haven't
seen that I would like to see instead. I have very pleasant memories of my
childhood but they involve people, not streets - and those people are no longer
in Cz.

I hate to tell you this but those of you who continue to gush over Cz have
fallen in love with an image of a town that never existed. R.I.P. Cz.

I'm already ducking because I expect a barrage of rockets but I had to say it.
 For this ex-Czernowitzer it is Auf Nimmerwiersehn.
Andy.

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