The Goga Cuza Government compelled the Jews of Czernowitz (I do not know
whether the same rule applied to all towns) to keep open the stores on
Sabbaths. I remember the severe calamity it constituted for our family and
for other orthodox Jews who had stores.
Paul Heger
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Alfred Schneider <asfred_at_comcast.net>
wrote:
> Does history repeat itself? Not too often, but symbolism does. I spent my
> childhood in Wiznitz (Vijnita), a small town about forty miles from
> Czernowitz, where my father had his medical practice. On December 28, 1938,
> King Carol II appointed Octavian Goga to form the first Goga-Cuza
> government. This overtly anti-Semitic government passed many decrees during
> its 44 days in power that had a profound effect on the lives of the Jewish
> population of Romania. Jews constituted over 90% of the population of
> Wiznitz and they were deeply shocked when a large electrically illuminated
> swastika was placed on the City Hall. One day after the fall of the
> Goga-Cuza government on February 10, 1938, most of the Jews of Wiznitz,
> religious chasidim and misnagdim, secular zionists, communists, atheists,
> etc. assembled in front of City Hall to witness the removal of the hated
> symbol. The atmosphere was festive; some recited the shehechayanu prayer
> and compared this day with the fall of Haman.
>
> Today, another symbol, the Confederate Battle Flag, is coming down from
> its pole at the State Capitol Grounds in Columbia, South Carolina, a state
> where I lived for five years. As I watched on TV the emotional crowd
> attending this historic event, my mind wandered off to the far-away little
> town on the Czeremosz.....
>
> Alfred (Fred) Schneider
>
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