Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz (what else?)

Hi Mimi, Bruhim she baiym...
Very interesting story, but you have not asked his name???How can that
be...or it is a secret for the list??? Pklease, take a look at the
gravestone of my father,already done, when you will be another time at the
cimetary, you know the place, because you were the first who discovered
it...
Thanks
Hedwig
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From: <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Czernowitz (what else?)

> As some of you may know, I am in Chernivtsi now.
> Earlier today, I was standing with two of the SVIT Ukraine
> volunteers on the steps of city hall. We were speaking English.
> An elderly man came out of the building, heard us speaking English
> and stopped to tell us that he had been both an English
> and German teacher in one of the highschools. Then he told us
> that he was a native Czernowitzer. So I told him that I was one too.
> So he started speaking Romanian to me. Later, when he found out
> that the two volunteers were from Poland, he said that he was Polish
> and started speaking Polish to them.
>
> After a while he decided to leave and when he had to navigate
> the wet steps, it was raining, he said oy,oy,oy!
>
> Only in Czernowitz!
>
> Mimi
>

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