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

On 7/6/12 10:54 AM, "Raanan Avi" <raananas_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:

> Dear Edgar,
> Great trip report!
> My grand-grandfather was the ouner of such a house with a big yard on the
> Steingasse 12, today Peryaslavska.
> The house was a kind of "U" shape with a big entrance in the front. It is
> visible on the 1911 map.In todays map it seems the house was altered. may be
> it is now two houses.
> In some of yoe pictures you shaw an outher coridor - "balcon" which was
> also in Steingasse 12, according to the stories of my uncle. may be in your
> next visit you can take some inside pictures. I'll be there in September.
>
> Did anyone know if US citizens need entry visa to Romania and Ukraine?
>
> Thanka.
>
> Avi

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