Re: [Cz-L] My Czernowitz Roots

I am in total agreement with Joanna Liss on the enjoyment derived from read=
ing Phil Katz's mini-memoir.  This sharing of experiences of survival m=
akes fascinating reading.  I wish that in my youth I had run less and a=
sked to be told more within my own family since I now have all sorts of ques=
tions with none of the family still around to provide the answers.

My aunt Hilda and her husband, Julius Gutmann and my cousin, Turi (all dead=
 now)  and some 40 other families apparently traded with the authoritie=
s all their possessions for a small ship with holes in it to get to Palestin=
e.  The ship sank off Turkey but no lives were lost.  All I recall=
 is that within hours of getting to the shore, Hilda found a sewing machine =
and started working, repairing torn clothes, alterations, whatever. 

I have no idea how they left Turkey but they were intercepted by the Britis=
h and put in a camp in Cyprus where, apparently, they enjoyed themselves gre=
atly, studied English, took part in plays, etc.  I have a snapshot=
 of the three of them on Cyprus in 1943 thus their exodus from Romania would=
 have been between 1940 and '42.  They would have been among the first =
to enter Palestine legally but I have no dates or details.  There is a =
statue of a boat near the beach in Tel Aviv  that commemorates a s=
imilar arrival but I checked for names, and it wasn't the same. 

If anyone has any information about that ship and the 40 families that ende=
d in Cyprus, I would be grateful to hear about it.
All the best,
Andy Halmay



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1. [Cz-L] My Czernowitz Roots
2. Re: [Cz-L] Website advertising tours of Czernowitz
3. [Cz-L] old time couple (expand)
4. Re: [Cz-L] old time couple (expand)
5. [Cz-L] temple
6. Re: [Cz-L] My Czernowitz Roots
7. Re: [Cz-L] temple
8. [Cz-L] Phil Katz's recollections

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Subject: [Cz-L] My Czernowitz Roots
From: "phil katz" <pkatz_at_awi.li>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:40:43 -0800
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Hello Ms. Taylor and fellow Czernowitzers,

My name is Phil Katz, and I have been rather timid about writing to =
 
you all, since

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