Sinds 1941 when I, together with my parents, were deported to
Transnistria have never been to Czernowitzs. One of the reasons was that
my wife did not want to spoil har youth memories with the bitter remains
of gone times.
A travel agency in Israel specialised in this travel arranged for me and
my son a program, a guide for Czernowitz, one for Kiev and one personal
driver with car al speaking Hebrew and some English.
The program included flight to KIev, and visiting there, travel by car
to Czernowitz and return via Mogilev Podolsk to Kiev.
The Hotels are goed band cheap but the brakfast is very bad. I would
sugest to eat uitside the Hotel. The food is very cheap and if you like
Ukrainian delicius.
Kiev is a very nice city and there is much to be seen. When I arrived in
Czernowitz, I sauw that the old Austrian buildings have been restored,
the Herrengasse made only for pedestrians but it is not a living street
like it was when I was small.
One of the principal reasons for my trip was to see the building where
I was born, and which belonged to my parents and now to me (but was
confiscated by the Rumanians in 1941).
Although I had an old map with the german names of the street and
comparing it with the Ukrainian map I knew were it was I did not
recognize it. Except for three buildigs, including mine, the other were
destroyed or rebuilt.
We were living on the ground floor and had a big kitchen 5x5 meter with
a stove built with briks and on the side there was an oven where we
baked bread and all kinds of cakes.
The stove was gone and a family used it as living and sleeping room. All
the other rooms were also converted to one room apartements and for this
purpose extra doors were opened on the side of the building.
We had also a fruit garden with some 50 fruit trees. The passage to the
garden was blocked and on parts adjacent buildings were built partly on
the garden. Most of the trees were cut down and the neigbour which has
taken was was over of the garden greuw there vegetables. I have also
visited the spot where 400 Jews (notables) have been shot by the
Rumanians in 1941 and havs said Kadish and El Maleh Rachamim. One of the
400 was Chief Rabbi of Czernowitz, Rav Abraham Mark Which performeed the
werdding of my parents and bought me imidiately after I was Born.
The big disappointment was in Mogilev Podolsk. They told me that they
have lists of all the graves in the graveyard. The Head of the kehila
gave me a writing block and there were written a great number of graves
but some 40% had only a number and no name.
In was looking for some 10 relatives but found only two: My grandmother
and an oncle, my fathers brother. I wrote down the numbers and we went
to the cemetery. It is a disaster. No proper entrance, You have to
climb and hoop not to fall down.
The grave of my oncle was onfindbar in spite of the number, The grave of
my grandmother we did find but the stone with the text fel down on the
grave stone and we could not lift it. WEl I said my mprayers there and
left the place.
Then they said they will show me the orphanage. They showed me an old
building. I know there were 3 orphanages in Mogilev. I was one and a
half year in number 1 and then one year in number 3. I also have seen
number 2 were small children were kept.
None of the buildings was eveb resembling that building. When I told him
so i said that he does not know. Wel he gets money for guiding so he has
to show something but with me he had bad luck.
I was very hapy with this trip because the guide from Czernowitz
succeded in providing me with a copy of the registry of the mariage of
my parents and at last I know their exact birth day.
David
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