RE: [Cz-L] Request for testimonies

Hi, Florence,
        Regarding your "general request" - we had quite a pleasant
conversation almost a year ago when I came to visit you at your office (the
French Research Center) in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, your tape recorder di=
d
not work, but I managed to tell you a lot of things.
        
        As to the story regarding the fence of the Ghetto - with all due
respect to the wonderful old Czernowitzer lady, it is not factually correct=
.
As far as I remember, the fence was moved only once, when the authorities
came to the conclusion that the original Ghetto area was to small for the
relatively "large number" of Jews who had not yet been deported. Once the
second round of deportations was completed, according to Traian Popovici's
testiomony, the fence slowly slowly "disappeared". Jews were permitted to
go everywhere they wanted, provided they had the "Yellow Magen David" on
their coats and only between 11:00 and 13:00 o'clock.
        
        Yes, it is true that there were Romanian and Ruthenian neighbours
both in the Ghetto area and also after that until March 1944. We had them
in the Fabriksgasse neighbourhood area.

Regards, Abraham K.

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heymann
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:13 PM
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Subject: [Cz-L] Request for testimonies

Dear friends of the list,
I am writing just now an article for a French review about the Jews which
remained during all the war in Czernowitz.
I speak for several weeks with a wonderful lady, more than 90 years old. Sh=
e
remained during all the period in Czernowitz and we speak a lot about the
daily life during these years (June 1940 - June 1941, then June 1941 - May
1944).
I would have a general request and two more precise ones.
The general request: I would be very interested by all the testimonies or
memories of the period, especially as regards personal stories or anecdotes=
.
The specific requests; The lady told me that the limits of the ghetto
changed each time the Romanian authorities had succeeded in evacuating the
Jews of a street to send them in Transnistria. At this moment, the wood
fence of the ghetto was moved to the next street. Somebody knows about this
fact?
My informer also said to me that, in the perimeter of the ghetto, not only
Jews remained. For example, she had a Rumanian neighbor. On this question
also, I would have liked to have other testimonies.
I will be obviously very interested to receive all possible memories on thi=
s
period.
I thank you so much in advance.
Dr. Florence Heymann
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