This is an answer to a message from Berti from April 2022.
Sorry I am answering it only now, but there were extenuating circumstances.
In the summer of 1941, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union,
The first thing they did was bomb the airport. To the best of my knowledge,
They did not bomb anything else in Czernowitz and vicinity.
We lived in the Blumengasse at that time, close to the airport
And to the chagrin of my mother, my father and uncle climbed
on the roof, to better see what was happening.There were a number
of times when the sirens sounded and we hurried to the air raid shelter,
but there were no further bombings.
Everyone also had a gas mask in case the Germans would use gas.
I remember the smell of the rubber from which the mask was made.
There were no further bombings during WW2. In the spring of 1944
As the Germans were retreating from Czernowitz a command-car full
Of munitions, in the center of the city, ran out of fuel and was
set on fire by German troops. The resulting explosion was very loud
and our neighbor Werner Munster who was convinced that either
The Russians or the Germans would blow up the Casserna near which
we lived, started to throw out the window the Rucksacks which
we all had packed, in case we had to flee suddenly.
Unfortunately, his elderly mother was in the garden, just below
the window, but she was not hurt badly and we had reason to laugh.
Soon after, on March 28, 1944 the Russians arrived in Czernowitz.
The two major joyous events I remember from my childhood are;
The Russians entering Czernowitz in 1944 and three years later
The United Nations decision on the partition of Palestine. By then
I was ten years old, but I did not know that there would be another war.
Greetings to all of you, Happy Hanukah and a healthy, happy
and peaceful 2023,
MImi
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> On Apr 7, 2022, at 3:56 AM, Berti Glaubach <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You will have to look closer, there are still others around. And in 1941 the
> Germans did not bombard Czernowitz, the explosions you heard in the shelter
> were the two bridges over the Pruth being blown up by the retreating Red Army.
> There was never a danger of gas attack in WWII. Hitler hated fighting with
> gas because of his experiences in WWI.
> I was 12 years old in 1941 and have still a vivid picture of the time and the
> following war years.
> Best Berti.
>
>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 9:52 PM RUTH GOLD <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> From: Raul Artal <[email protected]>
>>> Date: April 6, 2022 at 11:49:37 AM EDT
>>> To: RUTH GOLD <[email protected]>, Arthur von Czernowitz
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [External] Re: [czernowitz-l] Christian's Documentay
>>>
>>> Dear Ruth and Arthur,
>>>
>>> Please add me to your list of Czernowitzsers
>>> although , born in Bershad and only 3 yrs old
>>> when my parents and I left Czernowitz.
>>> Happy Pesach and best wishes
>>> Raul
>>>
>>> Raul Artal Mittelmark
>>> [email protected]
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>>> From: [email protected]
>>> <[email protected]> on behalf of RUTH GOLD
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 8:14:27 AM
>>> To: Arthur von Czernowitz <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [External] Re: [czernowitz-l] Christian's Documentay
>>>
>>> Dear Arthur,
>>> What a sad observation about the two of us being the only last living
>>> Czernowitzers.
>>> Hopefully we will live for another couple of years.
>>> Meanwhile, take good care of yourself and have happy Passover.
>>> With warm regards,
>>> Ruth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> > On Apr 6, 2022, at 3:13 AM, Arthur von Czernowitz
>>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello Ruth,
>>> >
>>> > BEZINITZE, is a nice word, i remember when they called us jid parshivi or
>>> > paskudny jid.
>>> > But all this is over now. I befriended a girl who found my grandfathers
>>> > resting place at the Czernowitzer cemetery. Now she was married and had 2
>>> > kids a boy and a girl and ended up in Mariupol. They were 2 month hiding
>>> > in a cellar with no food and no water. The boy is 4 years old, my age in
>>> > Berdhsad. She and her kids were saved by Spanish volunteers and they are
>>> > now in Valencia.
>>> >
>>> > Have a Happy Pesach.
>>> >
>>> > Arthur
>>> >
>>> > P.S. Looking at the ephes list, it appears that the two of us are the
>>> > last living Czernowitzers.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Sent from my iPad
>>> >
>>> >> On Apr 6, 2022, at 7:46 AM, RUTH GOLD <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Dear Christian,
>>> >>
>>> >> I just finished watching your excellent documentary, and wanted to
>>> >> express my admiration and gratitude for your invaluable efforts and
>>> >> dedication.
>>> >>
>>> >> Yes, my heart bleeds too, for all these innocent lives lost, and for the
>>> >> poor refugees.
>>> >> This a repetition of history, and atrocities this time perpetrated by
>>> >> a Russian megalomaniac.
>>> >>
>>> >> For me this is reliving my personal experience, and it hurts. In July
>>> >> 1941 my hometown of Czernowitz has been bombarded by the Nazis, and I
>>> >> spent my birthday in a bomb shelter with a gas mask on.Than followed the
>>> >> deportation to Transnistria. I remember the Ukrainians called us
>>> >> BEZINITZE (sp) meaning refugees, but we were not refugees…
>>> >>
>>> >> Let us all hope for a happy end of this nightmare.
>>> >>
>>> >> With warm regards,
>>> >>
>>> >> Ruth
>>> >>
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