With the 'cultural cleansing" of the new Romanian conquerors it became forbidden to use another language in commerce or public transactions in Czernowitz. Most public employees, including teachers, professors and Medical Drs abandoned the city and started a new life in Vienna. THe fines and punishments of the Rumanians were very strict.
{Carlos Hecker}
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> From: bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu
> To: CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Transnistria surviver _Chava Wolf Wzhnitzer
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:04:45 +0000
>
> The following message comes from Leah Snider <sniderlh_at_netscape.net>:
>
> From: Sniderlh <sniderlh_at_netscape.net>
> Reply-To: Sniderlh <sniderlh_at_netscape.net>
> Date: Monday, April 20, 2015 at 1:02
> To: <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> Subject: Re: czernowitz-l digest: April 19, 2015
>
>
>
> I know my father, Rudolf Heilpern, moved with his family to Vienna. I
> believe it was 1914/1915. He never explained why they left Czernowitz.
> He talked about feeling sorry for the wounded soldiers he saw on the
> train, and wanting to help them. He always told us that is when he
> decided he would become a doctor, which he later did!
>
> Leah Snider
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