Re: [Cz-L] Popovici survivors

 According to Mimi's remark I hereby correct my estimate :
    Not 3000 but 3001 survivors who remember.
          Sorry,
         Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Czernowitz"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Popovici survivors


Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Just a quick correction:

In 1941 I was 4 years old and I do remember. I even recognized
the house in which we stayed in the ghetto, even though I only learned
the address later. I remember during the early winter of 1941-1942, playing
"Halt die Haende hoch du schaebiger Jude" with two children a year older
than I. I remember hiding in the attic of the building in which we lived in
the summer of 1942, when my playmate, Jerry Wolf (Yosi Eshet) and his
parents, who lived in the same building, were not so lucky and were
deported. Had I and my parents been deported in December of 1941, I do not
think, we would have survived. My mother was a frail woman, who's health
suffered because of the deprivations suffered during WW1.

Mimi



> POPOVICI SURVIVORS , WHO STILL REMEMBER , HOW MANY ?
>
>
>
> Today we are out for speculations . How many Jews saved by Popovici
>
> are still around ?
>
> Assuming to what we know , the number of saved was roughly 20,000 in 1941=
.
>
> Let us split this number into 10 age groups at 2000 persons per group.
>
> Each group of a 7 year age span.
>
> The first age group who was 0-7 years old we can remove, they were too
> small to remember or tell us anything.
>
> Age groups 3-10 were from 21 ­ 70 years of age at that time so that
> today they must be 90 to 139 years of age by now and therefore almost
> extinct .
>
> Those still alive of this age group don¹t remember very much or ve=
ry
> well.
>
> This leaves age group 2 and 3 , those who were from 7 to 21 years old at
> that time.
>
> They are now from 75 to 89 years old.
>
> At 2000 heads per group that sums up to 4000 survivors.
>
> Natural death , sickness , accidents, wars must have taken their tol=
l
> too.
>
> During 70 years an estimate of 1000( or so) didn¹t make it .
>
> This leaves some 3000 living Popovici survivors.
>
> People who can still remember .
>
> If they don¹t have Alzheimer.
>
> Genuine 3000 Popovici survivors.
>
> How much longer ? Your can guess .
>
> What will be left then ?
>
> The Popovici plate at Yad Vashem and the Herrengasse plate of 2008.
>
> If we , hopefully , succeed.
>
> And a story of human infamy .
>
>
>
> Hardy
>
>
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