Re: [Cz-L] Latest on museum from Natalya Shevshencko

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Dear Marianne,

I have no material related to what we called the Russian period,
1940-1941 and I doubt that anyone else has. People destroyed
the Russian documents, when the Romanians came back. It was safer
not to be caught with anything in Russian. There was a tremendous
shortage of photographic film during that period, Therefore, also
no photographs. For instance, before the summer of 1940 my father
took many photographs each year, but of that Russian year,
I have only one photograph, of very bad quality, which was taken
by the NKVD "natchalnik" who lived with us.

Mimi

> Dear Czernowitzers,
>
> This is the latest request concerning the museum. We will discuss the
> details of these displays when we go to Chernivtsi, but meanwhile,
> please let me know as soon as possible what materials relating to this
> period you have in your possession, or think can be found in
> archives. I will ask whether she is looking for scans or originals.
> All documents, images, and objects will be extremely useful. Florence
> has , of course, written on this period, as have Leo and I, and so
> have some of you in your memoirs. It is not a question of historical
> details, therefore, but of objects that can be displayed to illustrate
> the period.
>
>
> More soon, best, Marianne
>
>>
>>
>> Dear Marianne,
>>
>> It is in these days leading up to Passover that Mr. Zisels came to
>> visit, and we discussed the exhibition. Indeed he agreed that two
>> of the six display cases in the first room be devoted to the Soviet
>> Occupation of the area, and the deportation of 3000 Jews to Siberia,
>> and the Holocaust. Mariam Feleer-Bertfeld, a Israeli scholar, wrote
>> a book on the subject. However her one book is not enough. If you
>> could help us with those types of materials, we would really
>> appreciate it. Materials on Jewish schools, unions; in short
>> materials on Soviet Jewish life in Chernivtsi in 1940.
>>
>> The second case will address the Holocaust, the first executions,
>> the ghetto and its everyday life.
>>
>> Mr. Zisels will be in the US from the 26th of April to the 6th of
>> August. You could give him any materials that you feel are necessary.
>> Natalya
>>
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