Re: [Cz-L] Some new member information and requests.

Dear Dr. Silverblatt,

I was intrigued by your recent e-message to Czernowitz-L and welcome you to
a motley group of individuals joined by curiosity or nostalgia about a
vanished city.

Your reference to Novosielitza, the home village of your grandmother,
prompts me to mention another native of that village who, I believe, was the
most remarkable Bukowiner of the 20th century: Eric Roll, The Lord Roll of
Ipsden, who died about a year ago aged 97. I spent the years of WWII with
his brother in Czernowitz and also discovered the grave of his mother at the
Jewish cemetery in Czernowitz when we visited there in 1997. I am attaching
obituaries from the Times and Daily Telegraph of London and a brief excerpt
form Lord Ipsden's autobiography, in which he describes his childhood in
Novosielitza.
It also happens that I have a small archive about Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger,
but I shall write more about this next time.

Best Regards,

Alfred Schneider, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
as2_at_prism.gatech.edu
770-394-3668

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Helene Silverblatt" <HSilverblatt_at_salud.unm.edu>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:47 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Some new member information and requests.

> We are Helene and Irene Silverblatt, twin granddaughters of Karl Schrager
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> of Czernowitz and Edith Kupferman of Novoseliza.. Although we heard about
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> Czernowitz from relatives living in New York (Czernowita, little Vienna =
> and paradise was Wein, ) Czernowitz has really become a place of great =
> meaning for us because of the remarkable interest shown in our cousin, =
> Selma Meerbaum- Eisinger and in her poetry. Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger died
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> in a forced labor camp in 1942, and her 57 poems, written in long hand, in
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> German, miraculously survived They were first published privately in =
> Israel, republished by a German press in 1980 and reprinted last year by =
> Hoffman and Campe. In September, 2004 we visited Chernivtsi with our =
> mother, Hilda Schrager Silverblatt, Selma's closest living relative, =
> when a plaque in Selma's honor was placed on the door of her apartment. =
> Over the last several years, her life and poetry have been celebrated in
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> musical theater, in avante garde classical music compositions and, most =
> recently, in a CD released by the World Quintet in which several of her =
> poems were put to music and song by German artists.
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> At the Chernivtsi ceremony, our 86 year old mother recognized how much we
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> owe to others for bringing Selma back into our lives. We would appreciate
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> any information any of you might have of her life, her interests, and her
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> concerns.=20
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> Helene Silverblatt is a psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico =
> Health Sciences Center and Irene Silverblatt teaches cultural anthropology
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> at Duke University.
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> We wish we could join you for the 2006 Czernowitzer reunion, but various =
> graduations won't allow us to make the trip. However, we greatly look =
> forward to finding out about your experiences.
>
>
> Helene Silverblatt, MD
> UNM Health Sciences Center
> Department of Psychiatry
> Albuquerque, NM 87131
> (505) 272-0544
> hsilverblatt_at_salud.unm.edu
Received on 2006-04-05 11:44:21