Re: [Cz-L] Do you like Philharmonia Square ?

I, who left Czernowitz 1943, aged 17 have a mixture of good and bad memories
of a city full of life, friends and a large family. As a small child I
thought the whole town were family for everywhere I went someone I was
familiar with or my family lived. I am trying not to remember my dark days
only but the short and happy times I spent with friends on the "strand" by
the Prut, Cecina- outings, walks, young/free/ no care in the world, being
spoiled and in love.
I don't miss the city, I would like to see it again although all the
streets, Hardy sends, are unfamiliar to me, I know the names but it all
looks re-done, re-painted, re-vived. I remember the sparkling snow and the
"graue Blotte" which followed the melting snow - the streets as photographed
by the Germans visiting Paul Celan's house, however broken and dreary the
sight, it looked like the city I knew, all the rest, parks, parades,
Austiaplatz not as a market but as a parade ground, all this is strange to
me and I would be a stranger in it. It has lost all the things I loved,
stones mean nothing, it was the people, the life that I knew - but that is
gone -, therfore, the things each one of us remembers and is willing to
share here, is personal and different - we are IT and IT are memories.
anny

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I can understand the feelings of Hardy and the others who were in
> Czernowitz
> in the bad years of 1940-45. However, I left Czernowitz in April 1940 at
> the
> age of 16 and I have a great nostalgia to the city I was born and passed my
> childhood and beyond. I visited the town in 1990, and in 2009 with my two
> daughters and a grandson and would enjoy visiting it again. The
> Musikvereinsgasse reminds me the Pharmacy at the corner Karolinengasse with
> the old style interior and the pharmacist, a tall man with and impressive
> red beard. I was so disappointed not to find there the interior as I
> remembered it. There is a model of a traditional pharmacy in the
> Herrengasse, but it is a poor comparison to the original one there. Further
> a big Kiosk was attached to the Musikverein building near the corner with
> the Musikvereinsgasse owned by two Jewish brothers, where we bought exotic
> fruits like oranges , etc
> and a fish store in a cellar in the Pfarrgasse where we bought live Carps
> for Shabbath, and I am not going further to remeber the many stores in the
> Mehlplatz , among therm the Jewish holy bookstore of Schapira, whose family
> came to Israel and Mr. Schapira was the Head of the Finance Committee of
> the Knesset as a member of the Agudah Party, etc, etc,
> Paul Heger

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