Mark and Berti
I’m not sure if I responded to your recent emails. If not, my apologies - so much going on right now!
Mark - that’s excellent advice and I will definitely be doing that. I already have the maps. Laminating might be a good tip.
Berti, my dear e-friend, always so quick to respond. I can’t tell you how grateful I am for everything you have shared with me.
Re your suggestion, the thing is that the places I am looking for are fictional. So a big part of what I am hoping to finally “nail down” during my visit to Czernowitz are the streets or neighbourhoods in which the various parts of the narrative might have existed.
These are:
- My teenage hero’s home. For that I will probably use my father’s actual address, which I already have (thank you again for that). But for the other locations, such as where the mill’s gentile owner lived, I need to find somewhere appropriate. In a different part of the city.
- I also need the home of another character in the story, a very very rich gentile, one who somehow survived there Russians (I’m assured some did!) hopefully in yet another neighbourhood. One where there once would have been elegant free standing villas and gardens.
- And, lastly, a “red light” district. Somewhere a brothel might have existed. One that serviced the military.
I know they existed because my father told me a story once of bering taken to one by his own father. Of course I never back then thought to ask him to show me on a map!
I hope some of this makes sense to you!!
Many thanks advice and help from you both. You have been among those who have got me this far. For the rest I think I need to be there, on the ground!
Rick
On 10 Jul 2019, at 2:07 pm, Czernowitz Genealogy and History digest <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu> wrote:
CZERNOWITZ-L Digest for Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
1. [Cz-L] Novel based on memoirs of my father, a Czernowitz survivor
2. Re: [Cz-L] Novel based on memoirs of my father, a Czernowitz survivor
3. Re: [Cz-L] Birth Certificate
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Subject: [Cz-L] Novel based on memoirs of my father, a Czernowitz survivor
From: Rick Held <rickheld08_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 11:44:04 +1000
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Hello All !
Some of you might recall me from about a year ago when I began writing a novel based on the memoirs of my father, a Czernowitz survivor.
Over the past year I have received wonderful help from several of you, in Australia and abroad - thank you all! - as well as from Professor Kwiet at the Sydney Jewish Museum. The manuscript is now complete and will be in stores next April. The publisher is Hachette.
Before it goes to print I want to ensure that all the details in it are accurate. To that end I will be visiting the city in September - my first visit, finally! - and am wondering if there is anyone there who could act as a guide and/or give me some general advice.
I am of course keen to locate the house where my father lived - I have its address - but I also want to properly locate various other places that feature in my story.
These include the weaving mill where my father worked, the ghetto, the train stations, and also whichever area/s were where the more affluent gentiles resided.
All of these, and more, feature in my novel.
Warmest regards
Rick Held
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