RE: [Cz-L] Commemoration 1902

Anny..you are almost right...but the "Rumanisation" attempts started quite
soon and certainly affected some of the Jews. Cornel

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To: Miriam Taylor
Cc: Shelley; Fred Weisinger; Hardy Breier; Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Commemoration 1902

Did life really change in 1918/19 when Czenowitz, I know little about other
places, became Rumanian? I don't think so. Shelly you're wrong Jews didn't
change their names then, maybe they did after 1944 when the Russians
returned, I don't know that.
I think, the early post WWI, transition was not shattering. People were
supposed to speak Rumanian everywhere, we as school children were certainly
taught that, I know that identity papers and contracts made in German had to
be translated into Rumanian, all official papers were Rumanian which few of
the local population understood as German/Yidish remained the languages we
spoke at home and our upbringing and culture was certainly Austrian. I
suppose lending libraries had Rumanian books too but the books at home, the
music/records were all German.
The terrifying change came 1937/38 with Goga-Cuza take-over
Nationalism/Nazism appeared but life went on. Jewish shops, businesses
weren't closed until 1940 life went on normally. The change in all our lives
started in June 1940 when the Russians occupied our city and our lives never
were the same again.
I might be wrong in the way I saw and wrote it but that was MY life and I'm
not a historian either only a participant.
anny

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