Czernowitz

[cher-naw-vits]

noun

1. the German name of Chernivtsi.

Czernowitz

/ ˈtʃɛrnovɪts /

noun

1. the German name for Chernovtsy

Example Sentences

“I had nothing” after arriving in Israel, he told the Paris Review, recalling a pivotal day when he wrote down the names of his family members and scrawled a simple declaratory sentence: “I was born in Czernowitz and my mother was killed.”

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Landing in a cornfield, he soon connected with his father and fled to Czernowitz, where they stayed in the Jewish ghetto before being taken east to forced-labor camps in Transnistria.

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His father, Rubin, and his mother, Martha, were leftist Zionists who emigrated to Palestine, he from Czernowitz in present-day Ukraine, she from Prague.

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Wait until you get to the part where Gruber is shown preparing veal chops Czernowitz, stuffed with wild mushrooms and garlic; you’ll understand.

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Ms. Schaechter married a physician, Dr. Jonas Gottesman, and they spent the war years in the Czernowitz ghetto.

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