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David! Excellent narrative of your trip back to Czernowitz...a trip back in
time. Did you have mixed emotions?
I am of a different character. I grew up in a neighborhood of New York
about a 30 minute drive from where I live now. I lived there from age 5
until I got married at age 22. I have no interest or desire to go back for
a tour. I have plenty of memories, both good and not so good, but let them
stay over there.
I love the neighborhoods I spent the next 40 years living in including the
two I call home now. So I understand your wife's feelings about revisiting
her former home where it all ended so tragically after many happy years.
Maybe she just loves her new home of 70 years just a little bit more and
does not want to endure or relive the pains of the War years.
Lloyd
On Aug 15, 2015 7:51 AM, "David Weiner" <dweiner_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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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