Re: [Cz-L] czernowitz-l digest: January 22, 2013

Resilience:
In every discussion where the prestige of old Czernowitzers is
confronted we have defenders of the bastion.
  We must prove to be the champions in all disciplines.
  The top, the unbeatable champions !
    Looking down on all the rest.
Hardy
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] czernowitz-l digest: January 22, 2013

> Life in Bessarabia before WW2 was probably not as comfortable
> as it was in Czernowitz. Therefore for the Bessarabians it was
> a lesser adjustment to get used to life under the Soviets.
> But to say that Czernowitzers were not resilient,
> is to speak from ignorance. They had suffered hunger and pillage
> during WW1, had endured anti-Semitism between the wars,
> had lived in fear under the first soviet occupation,
> survived the camps in Transnistria, came back to more Soviet
> style government and Antisemitism, left their homes,properties
> and lifestyle, endured life in mismanaged Romania, then emigrated
> to various countries were they did not know the language,
> had no property or jobs and where they needed to build a new life,
> even though they were no longer young.
>
> And if all this is not enough, think of how they felt knowing
> that they had narrowly escaped death and that many
> of their relatives, friends and neighbours had not.
>
> Mimi
>
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