Re: RE: [Cz-L] Re: dates in czernowitz history.

The precise dates are not very important.
  What happened is very much so.
    Remembering details - even more.
     As long as memory lasts...
      Do you remember ? Tell us , tell us...
Hardy

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From: <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
To: "Irene Fishler" <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>
Cc: "'iosif vaisman'" <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>; "'Miriam Taylor'"
<mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>;
"'CZERNOWITZ-L'" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: RE: [Cz-L] Re: dates in czernowitz history.

> Dear Irene, Yosif, Mimi, Edgar and Hardy,
>
> Thanks all very much. I do remember vividly the days but could not recall
> the exact dates.
>
> In particular I remember the day of - now I know - very likely March 29 -
> or perhaps even March 28 - when in the morning - around 9 or 10, I was
> standing at the window of our flat in Althgasse 7b, and suddenly saw a red
> army scout, in winter fatigues, with ready automatic gun (was new for me,
> because it had the drum like magazine which I had not seen before) walking
> carefully on the opposite pavement (he had come from the Rothkirch gasse,
> i.e. from Rosch), southward towards Austria-Platz.
>
> The scene is before my eyes today like a black and white video clip. I
> recall to this day my amazement and admiration (I was just 11 at the time)
> at his valour and audaciousness - because he was alone, and only the day
> before had I seen plenty of Romanian troups - in moving forward, just
> warily looking left and right, to check for an eventual ambush. I suppose
> that after he had completed his survey he had reported back that
> everything was clear for the troups to move in from Rosch..
>
> As a thoroughly contrasting situation I recall the day the Rumanian troups
> entered Czernowitz - now I know 5th July 1941. I was again at our flat's
> window and saw them marching in large regimental columns from the National
> Theater along the Rotkirchgasse towards the Rosch Kasserne. Again this
> scene registered and I see it vividly like a video-clip before my eyes. I
> was only 8 at the time.
>
> Regards to all
>
> Mordecai
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