Maybe there will
> come sometime when an historian will write an objective research based on
> what we wrote here.
Or somebody at Cornell will hit a wrong key and all the magic will be
gone....
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience
> Serah
> I do not intend to dispute with you about your subjective memory and what
> you experienced both during the Soviet and Ukrainian period, same as I do
> not intend to dispute with people from our group about their subjective
> feelings they experienced while meeting -nowadays - the local Ukrainians.
> I know (again subjectively) the reason why my family, and most of the Jews
> fled from Soviet ruled North Bukovina - at the first opportunity they
> had. The reason was that they lived under a discriminatory regime that
> constantly threatened their freedom. It is good that all of us have this
> list where we can share our views about our lives as Jews in Bukowina.
> Maybe there will come sometime when an historian will write an objective
> research based on what we wrote here.
> Yosef Eshet
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
> To: <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
> Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 12:28 AM
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Resilience
>
>
>> Dear Mordecai,
>>
>> No, we haven't enjoyed the Soviet period and my parents left as soon as =
>> they had a chance to do so. But we had to adapt and this is a long =
>> story.
>>
>> It was an interesting period in the history of Cz and I would like the =
>> website to have more information about Cz of 1945-1990s. At least the =
>> same interest they have in the current Ukrainian present and in the =
>> Austrian and Romanian past.
>>
>> Historically, Cz once again became a part of a huge empire. People who =
>> stayed had to gain new insights and to adapt to a new ideology, new =
>> language and culture and, to explore the geographical vastness of USSR.
>>
>> I was born after Stalin's death (or murder, as the new historical =
>> evidence shows), in Khrushchev times, when the repressions stopped.=20
>>
>> On a personal level I have benefited from an excellent European =
>> education and I have enjoyed living in a beautiful, multicultural city =
>> among one of the largest Jewish population any given geographical place =
>> has ever had.
>>
>> I craved freedom and we never adapted the communist ideology to our Cz =
>> thinking. Most of us just waited for an opportunity to leave which my =
>> father and his family missed returning from Siberian exile in 1948.
>>
>> Serah Kraft
>> =
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