[Cz-L] More legible version of my Email " Re Two most interesting questions

Sorry, I seem to have written that message in the wrong format.
Here is a legible version:

If Czernowitz had a Villenviertel, it was nothing like what most of us
imagine, 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 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 very small one.
The neighbors across the street did have a garden, but it was more of a
meadow, 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 I saw it again in 2003. It definitely was not a Villa, just a shabby
one family house. 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 houses. But when I checked the 1936 address book, to see
who lived there, I found 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, shoemakers, butchers and students.
On the other hand, when confined to the ghetto we lived with acquaintances
On 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

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