Re: [Cz-L] Massacres in Bucovina and Czernowitz in 1941

Dear Ruth,
Dear All,

 From my reading of some of the available literature, which describes the
events of July 1941
in Romania in general and in the Bucovina and Cernauti, in particular, there
seem to be
a lot of contradictions about the number of victims and the exact identity
of the perpetrators.

First hand knowledge of these events would have to come from eyewitnesses
or from documents, which can reasonably be assumed to be accurate.

I am afraid that it is impossible to say about most of these events: ³I know
for a fact².

I will write more about this in answers to other members of the Cz,-List,
who answered my letter.

Shabbat Shalom and may we enjoy only hapiness and ³Nachat²,

Mimi

On 7/9/09 4:45 PM, "RUTH GOLD" <glasgold_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> Dear Mimi,
>
> I know for a fact that Romanian soldiers together with the German
> Eunsatzgruppen murdered in 24 hours, two thousand Jews and the Chief Rabbi
> Mark.
> Ruth Glasberg Gold
>
> From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> To: CZERNOWITZ-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 10:42:19 AM
> Subject: [Cz-L] Massacres in Bucovina and Czernowitz in 1941
>
> Reading "The holocaust in Romania" by Radu Ioanid, I have come across
> information, I either was not aware of, or possibly the author is mistaken.
>
> For instance:
>> > The Romanian army also executed 18 Jews in Tereblecea.
> Is Tereblecea the same as Tereblesti?
>> > One of the largest slaughters on that day took place in Cernauti, the
>> > Capital of Bucovina, where two thousand Jews were killed by Romanian
>> > soldiers working in league with local residents, gendarmes and German
>> > soldiers. Two mass graves at the Jewish cemetery received 250 corpses
>> each,
>> > a third somewhat fewer.
> By that day the author means July 5th, 1941.
> Was the number of Jews killed in Czernowitz on that day, really 2000?
> Or was it about 700, as the number of those buried in common graves
> indicates? Where is the third grave?
>> > German troops executed another four hundred Jews on July 9, setting fire to
>> > the main synagogue with incendiary grenades.
> Was "the main synagogue" the "Tempel" set on fire by pouring gasoline on
> the floor and setting it on fire? Or was it indeed set on fire with
> incendiary grenades? Were the 400 people executed on that day buried
> at Bila?
>
> Please forgive me for bringing up the details of this gruesome subject.
> Like Marc Cohen, I believe that we should know. I also think, that among
> members of the list there may exist first-hand and second-hand knowledge
> of events which no longer exists anywhere else.
>
> Mimi
>
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Received on 2009-07-10 13:11:40