Re: [Cz-L] PRESENTATION FOR JUBILEE

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

 From 1918 or 1919, when Romania was given the Bucovina,
they made a difference between the Jews who had been part of Romania
before 1918 and those that who had not.
The Romanian authorities claimed that many Jews from Ukraine, Poland
and Russia had moved to the Bucovina at the end of WW2 and they did not want
to recognize these as Romanian citizens.

It was not quite a "Judenfrei" policy, but certainly was intended to reduce
the number of Jews in "Romania mare".

I have certificates from 1923-24, which give my grandfather and his family
permission to be residents of Cernauti, because their names are included
in the 1910 Austrian census, as being residents of Czernowitz.

Possibly other reasons for the preferential treatment
of the Jews of Bucharest, are:

They were afraid the city would not run without the Jews.
They were ashamed to persecute Jews in full view of foreign embassies.
The king may have intervened.

We shall never forget, but let's talk about happier subjects,

Mimi

> Why didn't he send Bucharest Jews to Transnistria?
> Hardy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Jerome Schatten"
> <ROMERS_at_shaw.ca>; "Czernowitz" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] PRESENTATION FOR JUBILEE
>
>
>> Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>>
>> In answer to Hardy's question "Why was Czernowitz exceptional.."
>> (in the treatment of it's Jews during the Holocaust).
>>
>> Antonescu (dictator of Romania in 1941, 1942) was just as much
>> an Anti-Semite as Hitler or Horthy, but in addition he was
>> a fanatic Romanian nationalist, and a vainglorious person.
>> No on was going to tell him what to do with HIS Jews,
>> he was not going to send them to work camps in Germany or Poland.
>> Romanian Jews would be sent to work camps in the part of the Ukraine
>> which had now been given to Romania.
>>
>> Luckily, for at least some of the Jews of Czernowitz, Popovici,
>> the mayor of the city, was a decent person. He argued
>> that the whole city would come to a standstill if all the Jews
>> were deported. He convinced the governor Calutescu,
>> that many Jews were needed for the running of the city
>> and thousands of us eventually received Calutescu permits
>> to remain in Czernowitz.
>> Under the new laws of 1941, Jewish properties, factories
>> and businesses were given to Romanians, who streamed into the city
>> from other parts of Romania. The new owners, needed the old
>> Jewish owners, to run the businesses and factories for them.
>>
>> In my opinion, the best way to illustrate the fate
>> of the Jews of Czernowitz, is by exhibiting the laws, statutes
>> and edicts which were enacted against us and showing
>> by means of graphs and numbers, what happened to the Jewish population.
>>
>> There are members of this list, who speak and write Ukrainian,
>> some of them have an equal and thorough knowledge of Romanian.
>> Therefore it should be possible to present this information in Ukrainian.
>>
>> We feel the pain of Jews wherever they are and in each time period,
>> but including photographs of Polish or German Jews in the concentration
>> camps erected in those countries, in a slide show about the Jews of
>> Czernowitz, is not depicting the truth.
>>
>> Among the prospective viewers, there will be those who will know this.
>> They will tell the others. The local newspaper may print this information.
>> The aim DOES NOT justify the means, not just this, but by using the wrong
>> means, we will not achieve the aim.
>>
>> "L'omer alle sein gesind" in 2008,
>>
>> Mimi
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