Charles German was born in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi), Romania, in 1936. He was five years old when the Nazis took control of his town in 1941. Along with his parents, Charles was arrested for ...

former Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein and the late poet-translator Paul Celan (born Paul Antschel), Chernivtsi has an honored place in the country’s history. On the eve of World War II ...