Re: [Cz-L] another book recommendation

I also read Mendelsohn's book - at least most of it. He is a classics
scholar and he used his training in that area to achieve an astounding bit
of research. I didn't know that there was a mass grave at the CZ cemetery -
where is it located? But I had read in the Encyclopedia Judaica that "On
July 5th (1941) the German army entered the town accompanied by
Einsatzkommando 10b. This unit's task was to incite the Romanians against
the Jews. Between two and three thousand Jews were murdered in the first
twenty-four hours after their entry."

Father Desbois also did an amazing bit of research. He traveled from village
to village with a team of people - translator, forensic experts, munition
expert, photographer etc sytematically taking testimonies from local people
in their late seventies, eighties. nineties, who were there either watching
it all from their attic windows or were impressed into service of one or
another task related to the killing. Nobody had asked them before what had
happened and what they'd seen. Many were relieved to be able to give
testimony. They all talk about the earth moving for three days after a
massacre.

Sylvia


On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Joanna Liss <joliss_at_comcast.net> wrote:

>
> 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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