[Cz-L] Edi Wagner

Dear Mimi,dearBruce et al.
Edi Wagner's original name was Eduard and not Edmund. The plaque on the
mazzewah with the inscriptions initially showed the two hands with the
spread fingers sign of the Cohanim, they were carved in the stone, but
in Soviet times it was covered with the plaque and a text instead.
Some information about Edi Wagner: he was my husband's uncle on the
maternal side. In his youth he joined the Zionist Socialist
organization. He organzied and led an ensemble of songs and dance which
performed in Czernowitz and Bukowina (Balalaika Ensemble). In 1934 he
visited Palestine and shortly after his return was arrested by the
Romanian Siguranta (Rothenberg), tortured and killed and thrown out from
the 3rd floor of the Polizeipräsidium, the police HQ. He was 26 years old.
He wa a charismatic figure and had a lot of enthusiastic followers
among the Jewish, German,Romanian and Ukrainean youth.
Two of his
sisters Ruzia and Alma were members of the ensemble as well, singing and
playing the guitar and the balalaika.One member of the ensemble is the
German-born
Johann Schlamp who stil lives in Czernowitz and has two idols: Edi
Wagner and Joseph Schmidt.
In the movie "Dieses Jahr in Czernowitz" which many of you have probably
have seen, there is a scene about the tragedy of the Wagner family, and
a visit to Edi's
tomb.Out of 7 members of the family, only 2 sisters survived, the father
and one son shot at the Pruth together with Rabiner Mark, the mother
thrown into the
Bug from a bridge, another son and his wife perished in Transnistria.
Can Mimi tell us in which context she wants information about the grave?
Eduard and Gabriele

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