Fw: [Cz-L] Re: dates in czernowitz history -- long

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From: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
To: <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Re: dates in czernowitz history -- long

> First, allow me to compliment Mordecai's enthralling story-telling
> ability. Without doubt those who lived there through those times
> experienced events that could be the making of quite a number of very good
> novels (some of our members know what I'm talking about). I think that we
> should emphasize the ambiguous phenomenon, which, on one hand the soviets
> liberated us and actually saved our lives, and on the other hand made us
> feel persecuted. Through some chance (a story for itself) we arrived from
> Transnistria some days before the Romanians withdrawal. We couldn't enter
> our apartment, so we entered temporarily an empty apartment. I don't know
> how but a very short time after the soviets entered, one evening there
> was a knock on the door. My mother opened and was met by a soldier asking
> for my father (born 1900) to be recruited. My mother was a very
> quick-witted person, kept her head, and told the soldier that he got the
> wrong address because we are the family that were registered as the
> apartment owners. Another sequence of hiding started till after some time
> by sheer luck my father was met by one of his former acquaintances who
> was now the Economy Director of the region ("Rayspolkom"). He asked my
> father to take the job of directing the plant where he worked before the
> war and restart production as soon as possible, because of the food
> shortage that prevailed those days. This saved my father from being
> recruited... till the next encounter with the soviet authorities, which is
> another story.
> Yosef Eshet
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
> To: "Jerome Schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
> Cc: "czernowitz-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; "HARDY BREIER"
> <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>; "Iris June" <IrisJune11_at_aol.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Re: dates in czernowitz history -- long
>
>
> Dear Jerome,
>
> Thanks for your solution. I thought that such a long tale could not be
> included in a normal message to the group and sent it as an attachment. I
> was advised by the moderator that this was impossible, and that I should
> contact you. Meanwhile you just preceded my message to you and included
> the contents in a normal message.
>
> I do not know how many of surviving Czernowitzers had relatives drafted in
> the Red-Army in the course of that fateful April, and how many of those
> are in our group - but I wrote this for those who may be in it, and may
> perhaps be caught in a similar tragic position of not knowing the fate of
> their dear ones.
>
> Perhaps also these few tales I wrote up on Hardy's request will trigger
> memories in some other members to recall and send us their tales.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Mordecai
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jerome Schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>
> Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 18:14
> Subject: [Cz-L] Re: dates in czernowitz history -- long
> To: czernowitz-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Cc: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, Iris June <IrisJune11_at_aol.com>,
> lapidotm_at_inter.net.il
>
>> [Attachment and message converted by moderator]
>>
> [snip]
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