The Romanian Black book (Cartea Neagra) has all the documentation -- ghetto ordinances,etc. And Traian Popovici's Spovedania (Testimony), available in a bilingual edition, has his account of the formation of the ghetto.
Marianne
On Jan 21, 2010, at 8:44 AM, HARDY BREIER wrote:
> Dear Steven , congratulations for the acceptance to the AHO . You surely deserve it.
> As to the date of the Czernowitz Ghetto discontinuing I dont think there
> will be an accurate date to this.
> While the establishment was well proclaimed ( "We, G. Calotescu
> ,Governor of Bukovina...
> on October 11, 1941) the dismantling was a very low- key affair.
> By January 1942 the Popovici exempted had returned home (if the houses
> were not occupied)
> the rest were already deported .
> We returned in January :the gates were still there and
> the Popovici authoriztion checked. But soon the barriers were dismanted
> and there was no more Ghetto .
> All this was done very low-key somewhere in February or March.
>
> There was no reason for putting up a Ghetto to begin with, the
> deportations could have been made from the original homes.
>
> But the Germans demanded the Ghetto as the German General insisted that
> the Jewish hostile
> population endangered the Wehrmacht's rear.
> In general the Ghetto was a big nuisance, since over 10,000 non- jews
> lived there and they had freedom of trafic.
>
> Can somebody can produce any documentation on the event ?
> Hardy
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Marianne Hirsch
William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Co-Director, Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference
Columbia University
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