RE: [Cz-L] Resilience

Hi Serah! It is not just your grandmother who admired Kaiser Franz Joseph.
When I go to Vienna I usually visit The Kapucziner Grotte...the grotto under
the Capuchin Church where the Habsburg sarcophagi are. I have yet to go down
and not see bunches of fresh flowers at his sarcophagus,and a year ago
there was a bunch with a dedication "From the Officers and Men of the---
Mountain Artillery Regiment". I have seen groups of young men,students etc.
stiffening to attention in front of Franz Joseph before wandering on. I own
the DVD of the funeral of Crown Prince Otto von Habsbug-Lothringen, and the
reaction of a vast number of Austrians must have sent a shiver up the backs
of the current government.I have Austrian neighbours near me in London who
asked to see the DVD...and I think they invited half the local Austrian
community,of all ages.At the end they stood and sang the old Imperial
Anthem. A comment I overheard.."under the Habsburgs we had a Government,
under the current lot we have a bunch of useless amateurs". So....it
was/is not just grandma and some old prehistoric Jews. And a final reminder
that a couple of years ago the Ukrainians put up a very nice statue of Franz
Joseph in what used to be the Ferdinand Platz,whatever it is currently
called. Cornel

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Greenberg [mailto:grs_software_at_bigpond.com]
Sent: 03 February 2013 10:12
To: cornel fleming
Cc: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

The attachment and glorification of the Austrian times was very strong among

elderly Bukowiners, may their souls rest in peace.
.
I remember my grandmother, Frida Kraft, rolling her eyes and smiling
whenever she mentioned Franz-Josef,the Emperor of Austria-Hungary.

And because she was pronouncing the name in a German manner, as one word, I

thought (as a young child), that she was speaking of a some rare delicacy or

a divine place named :Franziyozeph!

Serah Kraft

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