My mother was born in 1918, and was also educated in the Rumanian era, spoke read and wrote (and still does) Rumanian, but always spoke Czernowitzer German at home. Correspondence with relatives overseas was also conducted in German and to this day I converse with my mother in German.
Miriam Suss
Melbourne Australia
> On 23 Jul 2015, at 2:10 pm, Shelley <shemit65_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know what you mean. My grandmother and mother have their attachment
> to the town they were born in. It was hard to keep up with who
> "owned" it as time went by but they fit in somewhat because they spoke
> multiple languages. But her birth certificate said Austro-Hungarian
> and she said that that's where she was from. My mother, born in the
> same town, said she was Polish because that's what her papers said.
>
> Shelley
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:35 PM, cornel fleming
> <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
>> I very much agree with Anny. I too was born in Romanian times...and we also
>> spoke Czernowitzer Deutsch and regarded ourselves as stranded Austrians!
>> Cornel.
>
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