Re: [Cz-L] Soviet Czernowitz,

Life was not hard - it was impossible.
 Almost all the Jews left.
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Soviet Czernowitz,

> Hardy, Since you referred to this photograph showing the worn faces
> of peasant women at a market as "the face of a nation" and wrote that
> this is why we left Czernowitz, I thought that you meant to say, that
> life
> in Czernowitz was hard and that is why we left.
>
> During the war and after it, life in Czernowitz was hard, our parents
> had experienced communist government in 1940 - 41 and knew
> what to expect if they staid.
> That is why we left.
>
> Before the war, life in Czernowitz was more or less reasonable.
> Jews could not obtain certain jobs, were not accepted at the school
> of medicine, were generally discriminated against and occasionally
> were murdered.
> My mother said that before the war, we were like the worm who
> bored a hole in the horse-radish root and once inside it, thought
> it was heaven. In 1938 and '39 many wanted to leave, but for one reason
> or another could not.
>
> Our grandparents or great-grandparents moved to Czernowitz
> because they believed that life there, was better than in the villages
> and little towns in which they were born. And for a while it was.
>
> Mimi
>
> -snip-
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