Re: [Cz-L] On Mehlplatz now Filarmonia square.

My late mother, Pearl Spiegel Fichman, wrote a number of passages about
the Mehlplatz in her book, Before Memories Fade. She lived there and
her father's shop was on the square as well. She lived there from
1920-1935 Here is one snippet from the beginning of her book:

"We lived in a centrally located square. I remember the house where I
was born and where I lived up to the age of fifteen. I was surrounded
by parents, older brothers and sisters, very friendly neighbors - the
youngest child among them all. It was an old three-story building,
situated on Mehlplatz (Flour Square). It must have been at one time a
square, where traders in flour would do their business on market days.
By the time I grew up, the old Austrian name of the square had been
renamed by the new Romanian administration Piata Dacia (Dacia Square).
Dacia was the Latin name of the territories, North of the Danube,
conquered by the Romans during the reign of emperor Trajan, about 100
A.D."

A bit further on, but still in the first chapter, my mother wrote:

"Mehlplatz with the horses around the square was also a very scary
place for a little girl. I feared those big Belgian horses with their
heavy, hairy legs and heavy hoofs. Their manes were long and thick and
when a wagon passed by, the clanking of the hoofs on the cobblestones
was hard and metallic, their nostrils would quiver and they would emit
heavy breath, the manes would shake. Some of these horses were of
chestnut color, sprinkled with white; they were powerful and would make
me shiver with fright. Whenever I went to my father’s store, I would
have to cross the square and pass between two carts, in front of a pair
of horses. I never dared tell my parents how scared I was, but often,
in a nightmare throughout my life, to this day, I’ve been trampled by
such horses."

She wrote this when she was in her 60's . . .

Eytan

Eytan Fichman
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
 
42 / 11 Tran Binh Trong,
Hai Phong, Viet Nam

-----Original Message-----
From: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: CZERNOWITZ-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sun, Oct 6, 2013 7:49 pm
Subject: [Cz-L] On Mehlplatz now Filarmonia square.

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chernovstepan/43582536/276225/276225_original.jpgCarriage
with horses on Mehlplatz. Horses were always welcome in Czernowitz.
Never put in a Ghetto or deported. Sometimes made as sausage and
consumed. By Podsudek who was Polish.Hardy

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