RE: [Cz-L] Personal Introductions

Forwarded message from Zvi Straucher <zstr_at_013.net> follows:

Dear Bruce!
In response to your call for some biographical details and personal
roots for the interest in Czernowitz and the List I forward the
following:
My name is Zvi Straucher I live in Haifa Israel my profession is Human
Factors Engineering and I retired from full time work several years ago.
Now I do some consultation work and instruct Student-projects at the
Technion. I joined the list in 2002.
My interest in Czernowitz stems from my name. All the years I knew that
Benno Straucher had some family connections to us and that he was "an
important man" but the details about him where a taboo and we never
discussed any it in our family.
As the internet got accessible to every one I once searched for my
family name. This occurred at the begging of the present century when no
relevant member of my fathers' family was alive any more for some first
hand history. (my father passed away in 1993).
>From 2000-2003 I searched the internet corresponded with the "Chesed
Shoshana" organization in Czernowitz and got some information about
Benno Straucher and his family. I tried also to get any information from
my late mother Shelly who passed away in 2003.
  Now I have some personal explanations for the reasons why Benno was a
persona-non-grata in our family but I leave it to some future
discussions.
I myself was born in Roman in 1944 my father Wilhelm Straucher dealt
with the wood industry and my mother was born in Suceava Rumania (Maiden
name Weinberg). Her father Hirsch Weinberg died in Transnistria in about
1941.
My parents left Rumania in 1950 Since then we live in Israel.
I am interested in any information about the Straucher family in
Czernowitz or anywhere else and also in families Weinberg from Suceava
Neger from Kimpulung. Rizenberg, Glaubach and Russler from Czernowitz
and Lehr in Rumania.
Best regards Zvi Straucher
Received on 2006-06-07 11:32:22