[Cz-L] Pictures from Czernowic cemetery

Dear genners
Getting the pictures Bruce sent me last Friday was indeed a big
surprise. My mother Malcia Ellenberg-Doerfler was born in Czernowic
in 1933 . The only family picture she found after surviving
Transnistria was of herself standing in front of her mother's tomb
in 1939. She remembers her mother dying when she was about five years
old, she was than sent to her grandmother Sheva Ellenberg and
together they were sent to Transnistria in 1941. Her grandmother died
of hunger and thypos and she remained by herself although some other
members of the family were in the same camp. She never told stories
of TRansnistria except for the fact That she was making a living by
selling potato peels and the fact that she walked 8 days all the way
to the orphanage in Bucarest. In the orphanage she was registered as
13 years old as she was all skin and bones and the limited age was 13
[so when was she born?] She never wanted to go back saying that the
only reason to go back would be if her mother's grave [Lea-Lottie
Scharf Ellenberg] still stands. Now you can imagine our emotions
when we got the picture and the scriptions on the tomb is absolutely
legible. I shall be waiting to hear from the group upon their return
and plan our own roots trip to Czernowic.

Thanks you again Bruce and all the wonderful volunteers.
Dr. Lea Gedalia, Jerusalem
Received on 2006-03-19 16:53:44