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

Hello All,

I just returned from Chernivtsi , late last night and my memories of
how the city
looks currently are very fresh in my mind. I left Czernowitz at the
age of eight,
in the summer of 1945. At that time, I knew certain parts of the city
very well and
other part, not at all. The buildings around the Ringplatz, around
the theatre,
on the Herrengasse, have been repainted in light bright colors, which
are very different
from how they looked in 1945. Other parts of the city look very
shabby and neglected,
but in general, Czernowitz/Chernivtsi is a very beautiful city, with
some incredibly beautiful
buildings, many of which I was not aware of.
And speaking of Kiosks: on the Siebenburger Strasse, opposite the
Cathedral, there still is
a small public garden, with a newspaper Kiosk in it. It looks today,
in 2011, just the same
as it looked in 1940 or 1941, when I went there with my father to buy
a newspaper.
Let me stop, before I become too sentimental,

Mimi
On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:46 AM, Anny Matar wrote:

> 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

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