[Cz-L] another book recommendation

I wanted to recommend this amazing book, which I read last year. In
retrospect, I realize that it played into my decision to go to Czernowitz,
although I did not realize it at the time, any more than I realized my own
family connections at first. Mendelsohn tracks his lost family to near Lviv,
so, not terribly far from Czernowitz. The review attached describes the
book better than I could.

On a funny note, I tracked down and emailed Mendelsohn's driver, who does
heritage tours out of Lviv, when I was trying to figure out how to get from
Krakow to Cz. He emailed me several weeks later, when I was already in
Czernowitz, and said he could have someone bring me back to Krakow, but it
would cost about $1200. I took the train! Still, it was nice to talk with
him, a character from a book!

On a more serious note, there is a mass grave in the Cz cemetery. We were
told it held about 900 bodies. The chainsaw man's wife (sounds like a
character from a book, too, doesn't it?) said she knew a woman who was a
young girl during the Holocaust, and the woman remembered seeing the earth
move at the mass grave for several days after the victims were shot ,
because some had been buried alive. I have read other similar accounts, one
might have been in the Mendelsohn book.
Does anyone know anything more about this massacre in Czernowitz?

Joanna


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