Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

Serah,
Is it true that all phone calls during the Soviets were monitored ?
Hardy

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From: "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Cc: <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

> Yosef,
>
> I am a Jewess from Bukowina. The Kraft family came to live in Bukowina
> generations ago from somewhere in Austria. You said most of the Jews from
> Bukovina left in 1945. Do you or anyone have the numbers, how many left
> and how many stayed?
>
> I don;t know how many stayed but there was a lot of German spoken around
> me in my childhood. The municipal cleaner, the plumber, my piano teacher,
> our family doctor, my parents' relatives and friends-they all were
> German-speaking Bukowiners. And, of cause, there were many others, who
> spoke Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Polish, Yiddish-the languages I heard
> at home, the languages of Cz. Chernovtsy did not become Siberia during the
> Soviet rule. And no, you didn't need 'komandirovka" to travel within USSR
> in the 60s and 70s, you needed money....
>
> One of the List members wrote "And lastly this here List (at least in my
> understanding), is an exercise in nostalgia about a world, we all
> irretrievably lost". Is this indeed the purpose of the List? Well, what I
> described above was the world I lost. It was far from perfect, there was
> no democracy and there was unspoken numerus clausus but that was my world
> in my beloved Cz for 19 years.
>
> I have a question to the List moderators. Should Bukowiners who, G-d
> forbid, lived in Cz under the Soviet regime, be excluded from the List?
>
> According to the Ephes website "The mission of the Ehpes website is
> two-fold: First and foremost, it serves the needs of the list members by
> providing a collection point for Jewish genealogical and historical
> materials primarily focused on the Czernowitz/Sadagora areas of Bukovina
> and surrounds; and Second, the Website makes its resources available to
> all researchers on the web by not copyrighting any of its original
> materials."
>
> The Soviet period of Cz is a historical fact. Yesterday my daughter, who
> has never visited Cz, expressed her interest in the Ephes website. What is
> she going to find there about her parents past? The only material that
> relates to the Khrushchev times is Asya Vaisman' "Sidi Tal and Yiddish
> Culture in Czernowitz in the1940s-1980s ( Number 23).
>
> Nevertheless, I am suggesting to the interested List members to read this
> paper.
>
> Serah Kraft
>
> [Moderator's note: Bukoviners and their descendants, from any time period
> at all, are most welcome to be a part of the Cz-L list. In fact, ANYONE
> with an interest in Jewish Bukovina is most welcome. As to the coverage
> you find on our Ehpes website - it is entirely dependent on contributions
> of list members. Submit your material and suggestions to webmaster Jerome,
> and it will find a home on our website. If a period of time is poorly
> covered, it's due to a lack of submissions, not a lack of interest.
> Moderator Bruce]
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