tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2412256567052830827.post50931772689108261..comments2023-06-22T14:46:59.270+02:00Comments on Czernowitz Book Corner: Stimmen der Nacht • Voices of the NightEdgar Hausterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02845427906846633254noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2412256567052830827.post-32748351693432864062021-03-07T18:09:50.370+01:002021-03-07T18:09:50.370+01:00I've been back in Czernowitz in 2013/15/17 wh...I've been back in Czernowitz in 2013/15/17 where I coincided with the international volunteers who come to help clear the cemetery. I was also asked by the Jewish Museum to accompany a group of history majors from the uiversity who were assigned a project to internview elderly inhabitant as to the fate f the Jews who once lived there. The villageers all told that for a time everyone got along well, but whe the Grmans & Russians invaded they stirred up hatred against the Jews. So after that it was not uncommon for people to go down the street armed with a hammer or any kind of weapon, even wit their bare hands to murder their previously friendly neighbors. They pointed out an empty lot at the edge of town that was a mass grave. Sylvia de Swaanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11569108085671552387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2412256567052830827.post-75653524990864293752021-03-07T17:34:26.417+01:002021-03-07T17:34:26.417+01:00I was born in Czernowitz on August 17, 1941. My fa...I was born in Czernowitz on August 17, 1941. My father was conscripted by the Russians when my mother was pregnant with me & so couldn't be there to greet my arrival to this planet -in fact we never knew what became of him. My mother, Etka Strum Neumman , spent the rest of her life looking for him, She would look at me pityingly & say, "Sylvika, your father never got to meet you." We were deported to Transnistria & through my mothers tenacity & hard work we managed to survive.Sylvia de Swaanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11569108085671552387noreply@blogger.com