[Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: December 06, 2007

> >Dear Czernowitzers,
> >
> >
> The Synagogue on St. Nicolae or St. Nikolausgasse (yesterday on the Ehpes
> titlepage, today disappeared?) was called the Kornsche Schul (of the Korn
> family), right next door to my grand-parents' house, is very small but has two
> rosette-like windows which still look very attractive. It has been filmed and
> photographed many times. There was an electricity works in the building.
> A pity the city administration doesn't intend to repair the street, it is in a
> terrible condition, full of holes.
> Just a short story about my forefathers' house, left of the photo in Ehpes, with
> the blue gate. By the way, it looked the same in 2006.
> In 1936 there was a big financial crisis in Czernowitz. A lot of people went
> bankrupt. My grandfather who had a big house in the Bahnhofsstrasse did not want
> to go bankrupt and was looking for a smaller house for him and his family. The
> house in the St. Nikolausgasse 7
> belonged to two elderly Czech sisters, who were reluctant to sell. My
> grandfather who had taken a liking to the house, and who had served in
> the army in WWI in Austria and Czechoslovakia and knew some Czech, went to them
> and convinced them to sell (in Czech)!
> It was a good house, with a big cellar under the entire house, and the whole
> attick under the roof with parquet floor rather unusual.
> There was a big walnut-tree in thegarden, next to the wall which separated the
> court from the synagogue, under which they put a ping-pong table, the young
> sisters and brothers in the family brought friends and relatives along, they
> played ping-pong, chatted, played the guitar, it was a happy life there until
> 1940, when things started going wrong.
>
> --
> Gabriele Weissmann
> Kaiserdamm 18
> D- 14057 Berlin
>
> Tel./Fax: +49.30.321 15 38
> E-Mail: G.Weissmann_at_gmx.de
>
>


--
Gabriele Weissmann
Kaiserdamm 18
D- 14057 Berlin

Tel./Fax: +49.30.321 15 38
E-Mail: G.Weissmann_at_gmx.de
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