Re: [Cz-L] Writing in Czernowitz

I well remember the purple ink of the Soviet years.
In first grade which I attended only for one month, because the schools
were opened to Jewish children in May of 1944 and summer vacation
started in June, I had written on a slate.
In second grade stating in Sept. 1945, we graduated to ink.
I took the ink back and forth; to school and then home, then back to
school...
Inevitably, one day, I spilt it all over my pale blue coat.
The coat made from one of my mother's dresses.
One of my new schoolmates told me to come to her home,
her mother would take the stains out. I went to her home and indeed,
by soaking the stained parts of the coat in milk, the stains came off.

Cooperation between Czernowitzers in 1945!
Now you know how to remove Russian ink from wool fabrics.

Mimi
On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Hardy Breier wrote:

> First came the Tafel and the Griffel. That is stylus and slate .
> First grade . Reusable after wipe off. Then came pencils in
> second grade .
> Then came the Ghetto.
> Then came the Soviets and we wrote in ink.
> Ink came in as a purple colored powder we had to dissolve in
> water.
> We wrote with pens and our fingers were always purple.
> The Germans left a filling pen called "Tintenkuli ".
> Of the famous Rotring pens.
> Very fine tube with a valve that opened while you wrote.
> Then fountain pens like Montblanc and Pelikan .
> But for all these you needed ink .
> But all we had was proshek (powder) - purple colored.
> Distributed in small improvised paper bags.
> And then we left Czernowitz.
> In Bucharest they already had the latest invention - the Biro.
> That is the ball pen.
> Then the Americans made the Parker ball point pen .
> Then the Italians made the counterfeit Parker in Napoli.
> Not as good as the original but affordable. You
> remember ?
> Hardy
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