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

A lot of Romanians moved to Czernowitz as soon as it became part of
Romania.
If you compare the number of Romanian names in the 1936 address-book
with the number of Romanian names in the 1914 address -book, you will
immediately
see what I mean.

Mimi
On Dec 17, 2012, at 12:07 PM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

> How did the Rumanians get a majority then ?
> Hardy
> ----- Original Message ----- 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

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