Re: [Cz-L] Military service

From: Lloyd Marksamer <longislanderl_at_aol.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 00:52:19 -0400
To: Shelley <shemit65_at_gmail.com>
Reply-To: Lloyd Marksamer <longislanderl_at_aol.com>


My grandparents rarely spoke about their lives in Chernowitz, but
I remember when I was about 11 or 12, I asked my grandfather where he was born. He told me, Romania.*
When I heard that name I got scared.
 "Is that where Transylvania is? Where Dracula lives?" I asked.
 I was a big fan of the Dracula movies with Bela Lugosi and was pretty sure that Dracula still lived in Transylvania and thats where my grandfather came from.
Grandpa was not a movie fan and didn't know much about Dracula but calmed me down by saying, "No.
I lived in Bukovina".
 He could have answered "Brooklyn". It didn't matter. As long as it wasn't Transylvania.

   I am still a big Dracula fan from the 1930's-40's movies but I just recently found out that Bela Lugosi was not Rumanian but Hungarian and the original Bram Stoker Dracula story DID take place in Transylvania and NOT in Styria (Austria), as some people here have written.
*I also found out my grandfather was a bit confused. When he was born and when he emigrated from Chernowitz to the US, it was a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. It was turned over to Romania a few years after he left.
Hmmm. Why did he call it Romania when I inquired in 1961?
My grandmother, who was about the same age as him and left Chernowitz just a few years earlier, told everyone she was from Austria.
Hmmm. More confusion.
 
Lloyd

> On Jul 7, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Shelley <shemit65_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My Galician grandfather served in the Austrian army during WW I. He
> delayed his marriage to my grandmother because of it. After his
> service, they married and moved to the US in 1920 with my mother. I
> don't know if he did his service as a matter of choice or whether he
> just wasn't a draft dodger. Many of the Jewish soldiers were treated
> terribly with regard to food and sanitary conditions. After coming
> here, he died young of stomach cancer which I attribute to his service
> in WW I.
>
> Shelley

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