Re: [Cz-L] from Romania about Traian Popovici

Dear Florentin,

My family and I were among those rescued from the Ghetto in Czernowitz and
 from deportation to Transnistria, or even worse, across the Bug in 1942.
Please count on my humble support.

Henry Sinnreich
Richardson, Texas
USA


On 5/2/08 6:42 AM, "lehaci florentin" <florentmoldova_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Czernowitzers,
>
> My name is Florentin Lehaci and I am a history teacher in Romania. I
> am also the president of "Traian Popovici Association for Education,
> democracy and tolerance", composed in majority from teachers, which
> was created few months ago. This organization proposes itself to
> promote Traian Popovici's involve. Perhaps, you have heard about this
> organization, because I have corresponded more with Hardy Breier and
> Cora Scwartz.
>
> First, I want to appreciate your initiative to put up a commemorative
> plaque to Traian Popovici in Czernowitz. I have read with a great
> interest your discussion about this plaque. I hope that it will be
> achieved. But I have a proposal. I request also from you an
> involvement in my projects. I know that some of you (or your family)
> are survivors thanks to Traian Popovici. I dare to contact you with
> the desire to collaborate, trying to realize together a common goal:
> the popularization of the Traian Popovici's implication for the
> diminution of the Holocaust effects. I hope you agree with this
> aspect and you will help me for this because I need you. I have been
> looking for someone who survived thanks to mayor Traian Popovici. I
> need more testimonies. Please, reply me if you can give me some
> details about you and what you remember about ghetto, Traian Popovici
> and anything would help me in connection with these aspects. I want
> to know that I'm trying to arrange a museum place into school about
> Traian Popovici and the Holocaust from Bukowina. My school will be
> named in this autumn "Traian Popovici school"
>
> The headoffice of the Association is in Fundu Moldovei, Suceava
> district, a village in which there is Traian Popovici's tomb. We wish
> we would built him a bust in the nearly future. In October, this
> year, we are going to organize, in connection with The Holocaust
> Survivors Association, Ellie Wiesel Institute from Bucharest and
> Jewish Federation from Romania, a symposium in Cimpulung Moldovenesc
> about Holocaust and Traian Popovici.
>
> We think that it is important that your Czernowitz community to be
> involved in my Association project. The success of the manifestation
> depends on the gratitude of those who benefited by his implication
> too.
>
> So that I think that a connection between events would give more
> importance to commemoration. Would be possible to organize the events
> together? Don't forget that Traian Popovici's birthday is on 17th
> October!!!! So that I propose you to organize together the events,
> both putting up of the plaque and the symposium from Cimpulung. The
> both events would be parts of the same festivity. And you could take
> part in the both events (who was going to come in Czernowitz this
> year)!!!!! What do you think about it?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Teacher Lehaci Florentin

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