My mother was born and lived in Viznitz and Chernovitz and Rumania is how I see it.
Thanks,
Gary Werner
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> On Jul 4, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Lloyd Marksamer <longislanderl_at_aol.com> wrote:
>
> Mini...
> Go write to JewishGen.
> They keep telling me that Chernowitz is located in Romania and that's where they have filed it.
> I had a big fight with them a few months ago trying to re-educate them on geography.
> According to my family.....
> Chernowitz was located in Austria for 100 years
> Now it's part of the Ukraine for the past 70 years.
> But JewishGen only recognizes the short period of time when it was under Romanian occupation for less than 25 years.
> But that's the only governing body for Chernowitz that JewishGen recognizes.
> I tried unsuccessfully to change that.
> Lloyd
>
>
>> On Jul 3, 2015, at 10:22 AM, "Taylor, Miriam R" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Edgar,
>>
>> Have a nice and safe ride to Istanbul!
>> Your descriptions of your trip are as always very interesting
>> And I am amazed at your endurance and love of adventure.
>> But this time I also want to protest about one of your remarks;
>> You write: "...joining me on my motorcycle ride to the Balkans"
>>
>> Ich bin sehr beleidigt (I am deeply offended ).
>> Romania is in the Balkan Peninsula. It has and is considered part
>> Of the Balkans with all that is meant by this.
>> But Czernowitz? Czernowitz is not in the Balkan Peninsula
>> And except for the brief period when it was ruled by Romania,
>> Could also not be described as a Balkan country.
>> Even during that Romanian period, most of the inhabitants
>> Behaved and thought like "Middle Europeans".
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Mimi
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