Re: [Cz-L] A very good year

To answer Ervin's question:

This photograph was needed for some document,
I cannot at this time remember which.
Generally speaking, from what I can remember of that time,
in some ways, life went on almost normally.
Jews were not allowed out of their houses before 10:00 AM
nor after 5:00 or 6:00, unless they had a special pass
which showed that they had to go to work.
Because there was nothing left to buy at the market after 10:00AM
this was a serious problem. We had to wear the yellow star.
Jewish children were not allowed to go to school.
It was next to impossible to communicate with relatives
and friends in Transnistria. There were food shortages.
Most of us could not return to our former homes,
because they had been occupied by Romanians,
who also appropriated all our belongings.
So we lived in very crowded and uncomfortable conditions.

The worst was the fear and uncertainty.
The deportations stopped after the winter of 1942,
but no one knew whether they would resume.
In 1943 a large number of younger men were sent on "munca"
(Romanian for the word "work") to southern Romania to build highways.

People alternated between fear and hope;
After the Germans lost the battle over Stalingrad,
people began to hope that the end of the war was near
and that the allies would win.
When retreating German soldiers came through Czernowitz,
people knew that the war was ending, but when the same soldiers
set on fire a car with ammunition which had run out of gas,
people panicked and thought the city was being bombed.

My parents and their friends were at that time in their mid-thirties,
the will to live and enjoy oneself was strong. That is why they
occasionally
sought release in small get-togethers at which jokes were told
and humorous anecdotes were read.

Mimi

On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Ervin Spinner wrote:

> Question to Mimi. I also have a picture from 1943. There was a
> vicious war going on yet people took pictures??
> [Ervin Spinner]
>
> On 2/5/2014 10:52 PM, Jerome Schatten wrote:
>> And yet another couple...
>> http://ehpes.com/blog1/2014/02/05/mimi-taylor-1940-1943-czernowitz/
>>
>> On 14-02-05 09:20 AM, Jerome Schatten wrote:
>>> And here is another very good year photo...
>>>
>>> http://ehpes.com/blog1/2014/02/05/1939-czernowitz/
>>>
>>> Different mother, different boy, before the war - before the
>>> first Soviet invasion
>>> Best,
>>> jerome

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