![]() ![]() ![]() After visiting France as a medical student in 1938, he returned to Czernowitz in 1939 to take up the study of Romance languages and literatures. ![]() In 1944 northern Bukovina, including Czernowitz, was annexed by the Soviet army to the Ukraine, of which it still remains part. In 1940, as a result of the Hitler-Stalin pact, Czernowitz was occupied first by Soviet troops then, with the collapse of the Pact, by German and Romanian forces. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 assigned the region to Romania. His family belonged to a Jewish community that had grown in strength and number over nearly 150 years of Austrian rule. The poet Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel in 1920, in the city of Czernowitz, former capital of Bukovina, an autonomous Hapsburg province. This event is co-sponsored with with Jewish Studies and the Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies ![]()
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