[Cz-L] Popovici Plaque

To recapitulate:

Mr. Melnyk of the Chernivtsi city administration has notified me,
That we have the city's permission to put up a memorial plaque
to Traian Popovici on the house on which he lived on the street,
which is now called M. Zankovetska, formerly Avram Iancu and earlier,
Karolinenegasse. When I asked for the house number, so I could get
an idea of how large the plaque should be, Mr. Melnyk responded,
that they did not have the house number and that I should find it.

Luckily, Adrian Barbu Berler knows a former Czernowitzer, who prior
to 1941 lived in the same house as Traian Popovici. This former
Czernowitzer, Bubbi Billig, looking at old and new photographs of
the particular section of the street, has now confirmed that the house
his family as well as Traian Ppovici lived in, was Str. Avram Iancu 8b,
And that it is the identical house to what is now M. Zankovetska #6.

Even though I still have to get the final approval from Mr. Melnyk,
there should be no further obstacles to having the plaque made and put up
on the appropriate house. It is a large house, with sufficient space
to put up a plaque 50cm wide and 80cm high.

If we have a stone plaque made by a stone mason, using the inscription
in 3 languages as we decided, it will likely cost $1000 or less.
If we have it made by an artist, we shall have to agree on a design
and price.

I will ask Natalya Shevchenko and Lyudmila Aliyeva, to help me contact,
both local stone masons and artists. Natalya Shevchenko is the curator of
the Jewish museum and Lyudmila Aliyeva, is a member of our list who lives
in Chernivtsi and has been most helpful to me in photographing the former
Karolinengasse, making inquiries at local stone masons, supplying me with
information, etc.

In closing, I would like to thank the members of the list, who have been
most helpful in supplying information leading to finding the correct
address of Traian Popovici, prior to 1940-41.
They are: Lyudmila Aliyeva, Adrian Barbu Berler, Hardy Breier, Peter Elbau
          and Yitzhak Rosner.

Mimi
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