RE:Intro of myself/ [Cz-L] Austrian Heritage Collection: Bucovina Heritage

Hello!I've recently joined the Czernowitzer list.

I am the granddaughter of Erna Engle (nee Weisselberg) who was born in
Berlad 1901, moved to Czernowitz 1907 and then to Vienna in 1914; she,
together with my mother, Ruth Cordero(nee Reiman,) and her sister Liese left
Vienna in 1938 and, with her second husband, Fritz Engle, emigrated first to
France and then via Spain and Portugal to NY, arriving in late 1941.

Her father Bernard Weisselberg was one of the youngest of a large and
complicated family; he married Betti Munz, the daughter of one of his much
older half-brothers (actually the son of his mother's first husband by his
first wife!) He had a timber and later steel business with some of his half
brothers.

The family retained strong business and personal ties to Rumania between the
wars (my grandfather, Erna's first husband, was the son of Ignaz Reiman who
was the Czech consul in Constanza and his mother was Bella Goldenberg, from
Braila.)

Two of my grandmother's three siblings emigrated from Austria to England;
her youngest brother went to work in the USSR in '34 and died in the purges;
his son and grandchildren reclaimed his Austrian citizenship and emigrated
to England in the 90's. My grandmother lived into her 90's and my Mom will
be 80 next month; as the oldest grandchild I've been the lucky recipient of
many stories and memories from Czernowitz and elsewhere and also some
pictures from my mother and grandmother, from cousins, aunts and uncles in
England and from some of the Munz and Reiman cousins who survived the war in
Rumania and emigrated in the 60's to St. Louis and Paris, including the
pictures of two of my great-great-grandmothers, Deborah Munz Weisselberg and
Kunigunde Goldenberg.

To: Emil Rennert
I'd be happy to ask my mother to complete a questionnaire. She doesn't have
email, but if you'll email it to me (hn4534_at_earthlink.net) I'll print it out
for her and also forward it to her sister and cousins. She may also be
willing to do an oral history interview; she lives in Rockland County, but
comes to NY quite often.

Alison Cordero
Brooklyn NY 11217

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[mailto:bounce-300802-3950162_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Emil Rennert
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:09 PM
To: Miriam Taylor
Cc: Czernowitz; Bruce Reisch; erennert_at_lbi.cjh.org
Subject: [Cz-L] Austrian Heritage Collection: Bucovina Heritage

Dear Czernowitzer!

For those who know me: Hello!

For those who do not know me: I am Emil Isaak Rennert, born in Vienna
currently living in New York. My Family is from Czernowitz and from the
southern Bucovina. I produced a documentary about the last shoah survivors
of Radautz wich was in Cinemas all over Austria and also released on
DVD. I also attended the Czernowitzer Reunion this spring in Czernowitz.

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Received on 2006-08-30 20:44:06