Re: [Cz-L] Sinagoge Gasse 9/ WW1 and Austrian army

How did the Rumanians get a majority then ?
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Cc: "Alex Denisenko" <tuagtuag_at_gmail.com>; <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Sinagoge Gasse 9/ WW1 and Austrian army

I think the attitude of Czernowitzers during WW1 and immediately
afterwards
was completely supportive of Austria. Most Czernowitzers had relatives
who fought in the Austrian army and during the war, whenever the
Russians
held the city, they plundered and burned parts of it.

At the end of the war, a plebiscite was held in Czernowitz, and the
population,
consisting mainly of Ruthenians (Ukrainian subgroup) and Jews,
voted overwhelmingly against annexation to Romania.

The Romanians wanted to get rid of all non-Romanian minorities and
threw out
anybody who could not prove that he had lived in Czernowitz or the
Bukovina
before the war.

Mimi

On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:49 AM, cornel fleming wrote:

> Hi Ljuba....re your question about returning soldiers. I may be
> wrong,but none of the information I have seen implies that Austrian
> troops were involved in gas warfare. From my family records,they
> helped defend the town from bands of mainly mounted raiders and
> when Romania took over people went back to work. Cornel

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