Re: [Cz-L] Two Most Interesting Questions!

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If Czernowitz had a =E2=80=9CVillenviertel=E2=80=9D, it was nothing like what most of u=
s
imagine,=20
when we hear this word. In 1940 when Czernowitz became part of the USSR,
my family moved out of the apartment building attached to our factory and
into=20
a little house in the Blumengasse, which is in the southern part of town,
past the end of the Volksgarten. I remembered the house as being nice,
but definitely not luxurious, it either had no garden at all, or only a ver=
y
small one.
The neighbors across the street did have a garden, but it was more of a
meadow,=20
full of wild flowers and our cow was allowed to graze in it.

More than sixty years had passed, since I moved out of that house in 1941,
till=20
I saw it again in 2003. It definitely was not a Villa, just a shabby one
family house.=20
The other houses on this street, were not much better.

Last year, I went along the Gartengasse (strada Regele Carol), on the west
side of
the Volksgarten and Botanical garden. There, there are some very luxurious
looking=20
houses. But when I checked the 1936 address book, to see who lived there, I
found=20
that like most of Czernowitz, the people who lived there were mixed:
By their names; Jews, Poles, Romanians, Germans and Ukrainians.
Physicians, lawyers, clerks, bank directors, high-school teachers, officers
and tailors,=20
shoemakers, butchers and students.
On the other hand, when confined to the ghetto we lived with acquaintances
on=20
Strada Prezan, in the lower town, in what was a very nice and spacious
apartment.
(Somehow, more than twenty of us, crowded into it).

I think that Czernowitz as it was, cannot be analyzed according to our
present concepts.
There certainly were people who thought of themselves a being better than
others.
Snobbishness was widespread, but so was pocking fun at the snobs.

Mimi =20

On 7/12/11 7:35 PM, "Janina Wurbs" <janina.wurbs_at_googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>=20
> wow, this is amazing - thanks so much to all of you!
> Thanks, Edgar, for posting my questions, and thanks everybody else for so
> quickly responding!
>=20
> I heard the terms "upper" and "lower" town first from Josef Burg while
> interviewing him in Czernowitz a few years ago. I believed them not only =
to be
> topographical terms, of course.
> I just heard from a Viennese singer who came to Yiddish Summer Weimar, an=
d
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