Fwd: [Cz-L] czernowitz-l digest: August 22, 2009

[Due to internet difficulties, I've had to forward Gerhard's email to
the list, rather than send it out from the moderator's web site.
Sorry for the delay. Moderator Bruce]

>From: GERHARDRODICA_at_aol.com
>Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:06:25 EDT
>Subject: Re: czernowitz-l digest: August 22, 2009
>To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
>Reply-To: GERHARDRODICA_at_aol.com
>
>A historical correction.
>
>Somebody wrote that the Jews from the "Regat" were saved through the
>intervention of King Carol's mistress Elena Lupescu.
>King Carol II, was forced to abdicate on Sept. 6, 1940 and left
>together with the "Lupeasca" as she was known. The Jewish killings
>started with the government of Horia Sima, but the bulk of the
>pogroms and deportations started after the beginning of the war with
>the URSS, in June 1941.
>The Jews in the Regat, were helped to survive by Carol's estranged
>(or divorced) wife, the Queen Mother Helen, (her son Michael was the
>king). Queen Helen of Romania is honored at the Yad Vashem alley of
>the just
>
>
>Gerhard Schreiber

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