Thanks for the update, Mimi!
Joanna Liss
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To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz - last week of April 2017
Thanks for the update
[Stephen Winters]
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 2, 2017, at 2:04 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Last week I was in Czernowitz and I would like to inform you about what I
saw.
> The city seems to be booming, mostly with Ukrainian tourists.
> It was difficult to obtain lodging at the "Magnat Lux" or "AllureInn"
> where I have stayed before, but there is a new hotel on the
> Siebenbuerger Strasse / Holovna named "Panska Dir", which is brand
> new, actually construction is not yet finished. It is even more
> luxurious than the AllureInn, but not as centrally located, it is very
close to the cathedral, and a room costs about $40 per night, including
breakfast.
>
> The Jewish cemetery looks in better shape than I have ever seen it before.
> Some areas are completely clear of all vegetation except for grass and low
growing annual weeds.
> The paths are almost all clear. Unfortunately there are still some
> parts of the cemetery which require a lot of work; trees and bushes
> cut and removed and the remains of the cut trunks treated with
> herbicide. I some areas in which the trees and bushes were cut, but
> the remains of the trunks not properly treated with herbicides, new growth
has sprouted from the roots and is now quite tall, but still thin enough to
be easily cut.
>
> As to the supposed "vandalism" at the cemetery, we could see none.
> The gravestone which was lying on top of the graves of the soldiers
> killed in WW1, was obviously the tombstone from an adjacent grave. It
> had not been properly attached to its base and had obviously fallen off.
> The people who are working on the reconstruction of the Leichenhalle
> (ceremonial Hall) HAD damaged the little fence surrounding the graves of
the Straucher family.
> We talked about this with Rabbi Mendel Glissenstein and hopefully this
will not be repeated in the future.
>
> I was explained to us by the curator of the Jewish museum, that the
> reason for the decision to locate the Holocaust Museum in the Leichenhalle
is a financial one.
> Despite Josef Zissel's desire to build a Holocaust museum, he could not
obtain the money to do so.
> Since the German government's decision to preserve and renovate Jewish
> cemeteries in central Europe includes the preservation and
> reconstruction of buildings which were part of these cemeteries it is now
possible to use the building, or at least part of it to house the Holocaust
Museum.
>
> I took no photographs on this trip, but Sasha Wolloch did and he will
> make them available in the next one or two weeks.
>
> All the very best, enjoy and celebrate Israel's Independence day,
>
>
> Mimi
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