Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Hello Ami,
My name is Miriam (Mimi) Taylor, I am a fellow member of the Cz-List.
My uncle Yehoshua (Shiku) Steinmetz was also on the ship that left from
Constanta to Palestine in 1944. He had been taken from Czernowitz to a
forced labor camp in Romania. My parents bribed the appropriate people,
so that he could escape the camp and get on that ship. My cousins,
children of this uncle, live in Israel and may know more details.
What suffering that generation went through!
Mimi
>
>
> Dear Hardy,
>
> Thank you for posting a picture of the city jail on Austriaplatz.
>
> http://pics.livejournal.com/whasup/pic/00893p00
>
> I have no idea whether this is the prison my father initially was taken to,
> but I guess it could well have been.
>
> After the Romanian fascists arrested my father, Michael Ohrenstein, (Maiku
> born 1919, passed away 1980), he was held in prison in Czernowitz for a few
> weeks. Who knows, maybe it was on Austriaplatz. Because he could sing
> beautifully in his cell, my aunt Hemda Meilen told me the guards allowed her
> to bring him food every day. I guess he would have starved otherwise. For
> his activities in Hanoar Hatzioni he was subsequently sent to a special
> death camp as a prisoner in Transnistria. My father then succeeded to escape
> from the camp in extraordinary circumstances. 'Wanted' by the authorities
> with a price on his head, he assumed a false identity in Bucharest for two
> years until he was allocated one of the first places on the first ship
> allowed out in a long time during the war, Milca A, sailing from Constanza
> for Israel on the 4.4.1944.
>
> He never looked back, and personally he would recommend against visiting
> there, but it is intersting to see where his gruelling trip started out.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ami Toren
> Zurich
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