tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post3336228757026304216..comments2024-02-16T22:14:46.997-05:00Comments on Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog: A Romanian celebration at JFKDeborah Lipstadthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-16904940231115918402007-06-07T05:41:00.000-04:002007-06-07T05:41:00.000-04:00Thanks for your reply.I should have called it Hitl...Thanks for your reply.<BR/>I should have called it Hitler-Stalin pact. At least I am certain of the spelling of these SOBs.<BR/><BR/>Good luck for your trip.huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299456569511629114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-48778295487958467942007-06-06T11:11:00.000-04:002007-06-06T11:11:00.000-04:00Thanks for the personal family history. It's fasc...Thanks for the personal family history. It's fascinating. I can't tell you how Czernovitz is today, I have not been back since then.<BR/><BR/>BTW, it's Ribbentrop.... He was a SOB, so let's at least make sure we get his name right!Deborah Lipstadthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-77101515252234678262007-06-06T10:46:00.000-04:002007-06-06T10:46:00.000-04:00Good day. I was reading with interest about your t...Good day. I was reading with interest about your trip and your experience in Cernovitz.<BR/>My mother's family comes from there and had to leave following the Molotov Rippentrop pact and the Soviet's 'aspirations' regarding the Bukovina. Our family was Romanian with Polish - Austrian roots and they spoke Romanian, Yiddish (because of close business relations with the Jewish population there) and German, and evetually left for Austria rathe than risking life under Stalin.<BR/>I have never been to, but heard a lot about Cernowitz from my grandmother. In her time the towm was called the 'Vienna of the East'and the demographics were around one third Galician Jews, one third Romanians and the rest Polish and ethnic Germans, with some Ukrainians for good measure.<BR/>How is it today? <BR/>(I also happened to be in Bucharest for a day sometime in 1987 - and yes, it was grey and dimly lit!)huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299456569511629114noreply@blogger.com