Re: [Cz-L] One Street and Thirty-Two Backyards in Czernowitz

I was born into one of these inner backyards , the Hof..
Lived there happily until 1941.
Then the Ghetto .
 Then we somehow came out of the Ghetto and back to that old Hof.
   As I saw the Hof again I thougt it was the most wonderful place on
   earth.
  And so it was...
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Raanan Avi" <raananas_at_bezeqint.net>; "HARDY BREIER"
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Lydia Schmerler" <lydia.sch_at_dbmail.com>; "Edgar
Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>; "CZERNOWITZ-L" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] One Street and Thirty-Two Backyards in Czernowitz

> The old large apartment houses which had an inner courtyard
> were not so wonderful. My mother was born and lived in one
> till she was 16 years old. It was number 4 Karolinengasse,
> now Zankovetska, right next to the Tempel. Josef Schmidt lived there
> for a while too, as did the families of a number of members of this list.
>
> But my mother referred to the building as a "Miet -Casserne",
> meaning rental barracks.
>
> The streets of Czernowitz were not swept with roses and they smelled
> of horse-droppings.
>
> The only people in present day Chernivtsi who speak German, are those
> who studied this language in high-school, or university.
> Old style Czernowitzers either left or died; it is now 67 years since the
> end of WW2 and the time when most Jewish Czernowitzers left the city.
> The Germans left even earlier; in 1940.
> It is 94 years since the end of Austrian rule!
>
> Never the less, Chernivtsi is a university town, the birthplace of Paul
> Celan and Rose Auslander and attracts both Jewish tourists with family
> ties
> to the city, as well as educated Europeans.
>
> Americans traveling to Ukraine do not need visas.
>
> Mimi
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