RE: [Cz-L] My Czernowitz Roots

Dear e-friends,

I too was moved by Phil's account.

My father Solo was born in Cz in 1908 but died when I was 1 year old in 196=
0 (he was much older than my mother and they did not stay long together).
He had 2 brothers Isidore who died in Paris years ago (I did not met him an=
d his daughter, my cousin, does not know much and even less interest) and Da=
vid who was single and died in Paris also in 1993.

I took the opportunity to go to Cz for the first time in August 07 and went=
 to the cemetery where I found the grave of my grand-father Markus 1870-1922
(died also at 52....).

Does any of this name tell you anything ?

I thank for your answer and want to tell all other Czers how important your=
 memories are for me and how avid I am to share them.

Happy Hanoukah
Cordialement
Alain Katz
33 (0) 6 07 30 62 37

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[mailto:bounce-3414065-8420454_at_list.cornell.edu] De la part de ALFRED
SCHNEIDER
Envoyé : dimanche 21 décembre 2008 22:40
À : phil katz
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Objet : Re: [Cz-L] My Czernowitz Roots


Dear Phil,

I read your letter in Czernowitz-L, was fascinated by your remarkable story=
,
and hasten to add a few comments. I must compliment you for tying together
the facts you do remember in a timeline that appears very plausible with my
own recollections. Of course, I am your senior by about fifteen years.

First the chronology: Czernowitz Ghetto (September 1941); a border crossing
when you were about three (the USSR-Romanian border around 1944/45); Barlad
(a town in Romania, 1945), Bucharest - Vienna -Bremerhaven - New York
(1946-51) - Liechtenstein!!! (as I deduced from your e-mail address). Ther=
e
is one important gap: 1941 - 44; was your family able to stay in Czernowitz=
,
thus escaping deportation to Transnistria? As you might have gathered from
the correspondence involving the Traian Popovici plaque, this was a decisiv=
e
factor for those who managed to survive the war.

As to your family names, Katz was a very common name, I knew some but don't
remember anyone who might have been your Dad. I was, however, well
acquainted with Lukawetz, a large village (actually two villages,
Ober-Lukawetz and Unter-Lukawetz) on the Sereth river. I had a number of
relatives there and used to spend some of my vacations with them on a large
estate that my uncle (Jakob Landwehr) administered for the Count Wasilko.
The name Wolloch sounds familiar. Because of your Dad's sport activities,
you might be able to find more details in publications about that period,
especially if you read German.

I certainly want to welcome you, probably our first Landsmann in
Liechtenstein, to the "Damals in Czernowitz" exchange and we would be
delighted to hear more about the "Flying Czernowitzer" (without a
parachute).

Regards,

Alfred (Fred) Schneider

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