Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery in the Early Nineties

Serah, you are probably right about the provenience of the influx of
newcomers .
 All we knew was that they came from the East and spoke russian.
Hardy

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From: "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
To: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Cc: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery in the Early Nineties

> Cornel,
>
> I wish you were right but Jews leave their host countries for 2 reasons:
> a) political situation becomes dangerously unstable; b) the country's
> economy is heading into a long stagnation and decline. The last wave left
> due to exactly these 2 reasons.Today the political situation looks stable
> but the economy in Western Ukraine is very weak so I wouldn't expect the
> Jews back
>
> I learned that Krasoarmeiskaya street was partly paved with the Jewish
> grave stones after the war from the documentary. The people in the 1990s
> documentary complained bitterly that authorities did nothing to stop the
> desecration of the graves. I know that situation is different now and that
> the cemetery is being restored. It's a big relief for our guilty
> conscience though many people from o/s pay privately for the upkeep of
> "their" graves.
>
> I've learned a lot about the "broken spirit' of the older generation
> growing up in a family where my father's side returned from Siberia and my
> mother's-from Transnistria. But my parents (the younger generation)
> managed to bounce back and even prospered during the Soviet times and,
> then, in Israel.
>
> In my teens I had a weird habit to take long walks in the Cz Jewish
> cemetery; it was very peaceful, beautiful and green. It was also
> reasonably well kept. However, even then, some of the recent graves were
> robbed and the old Cz graves looked neglected.
>
> It's good that you mentioned that after the war Cz population consisted
> partly of "original" Czernowitzers and partly of newcomers. I disagree
> with Hardy that most of the newcomers were from Ukraine. I think that a
> large percentage of newcomers were survivors from Bessarabian "shtetles".
> But, again, we don't have the statistics.
>
> Serah
>
>

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