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This is Yehiel, the “gabbe” in Rabbi Koyfmansky’s “shil”. The watercolor was made by Valentin Bukovinets from Nefteyugansk, based on my photo, released at “Three Walks Through Czernowitz – Ten Years Ago Today!”; see more “Czernowitz Watercolors by Valentin Bukovinets”! … Continue reading →

Herrengasse, seventy-eight years ago today: Str. Iancu Flondor! Herrengasse, ten years ago today, in May 2002: Not yet a pedestrian area! Three doctors at Wiener Café, one year ago today, in May 2011: Dr. Cornel Fleming, Dr. Josef Bursuk, Dr. … Continue reading →

Source: Bavarian State Library

Reception in the city of Haifa, Israel, on the occasion of the bestowal of the Decoration of the Austrian Cross Honor for Science and Art to Mrs. Hedwig Brenner with The Ambassador of Austria, Franz Josef Kuglitsch.

Netka an Rachelle Peretz in front of th Bucharest Main Post Office. In 1972 it became became the National Museum of History. Alternate utilization due to parking place shortage in Bucharest. The Czernowitzer newspaper “Der Tag” is reporting on the … Continue reading →

CBCradio:“She was from Czernowitz”; Vancouver writer Shula Klinger, raised on hazy family stories and old photos of people nobody could identify, searches for information about her grandmother whose early life in a cultured central Europe city was shattered by anti … Continue reading →

The General Assembly of the “Czernowitz Old Choral Synagogue” and the elections for the board took place in April 1934. 96 out of 117 members attended the assembly and elected, under the direction of state prosecutor Axani (?!), as follows: … Continue reading →