Dear all,
Seeing how fashion is of such interest, I thought I would contribute a few pictures for the group site. :-)
Jerome said I should send the whole message to the group, as it would be of interest - please excuse the length of the message, I have so many bits and pieces of information that it is difficult to select.
Of the two "fashion" pictures, one exhibits the oversized bow mentioned a few days back and is dated 1919 (I think):
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/tmp/tamler_antonie_else_6a.jpg
the other has both bow and gloves - worn correctly with one on, one in hand - probably taken around 1930, and I think it is taken in Czernowitz
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/tmp/Mizrach_Olga_2a.JPG
The first one is of Else TAMLER, b. 1913 in Zastawna, daughter of Dr. Abraham Ber TAMLER and Sabina NEUMAN and younger sister of my grandfather Ernst TAMLER.
The second is of my grandmother Olga TAMLER (on the right with gloves), born MIZRACH in 1911 in Atachi / Otaci, Bassarabia, here with a cousin and niece.
As to myself (should this be required as an explanation of why I chime in :-)) - or more exactly, to the part of my family who comes from Bukovina:
My great-grandfather, Dr. Abraham Ber TAMLER, was born in Sereth in 1876 and settled in Zastawna when he started practicing law, first in the offices of his future father-in-law, Dr. Moritz NEUMAN, who was also a lawyer. Dr. Moritz NEUMAN was originally from Husiatyn and had lived in Czernowitz before settling in Zastawna (legend has it he was the first lawyer in Zastawna).
Abraham TAMLER married Sabina NEUMAN, the eldest of six children of Dr. Moritz NEUMAN, in 1911; they had four children: Ernst (my grandfather) in 1911, Else (1913), Eduard (1919) eand Edith (1921). He was Inspector of the Court Office, one-time community president and co-founder of the Hebrew school. He died in 1933 of peritonitis.
My grandfather Ernst went to school in Czernowitz, where he graduated from the "Liceul real Nr. 2" in 1928. He then went on to study engineering at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule Brünn. After his graduation in 1933, he came to Bucharest (presumably for a job), where he met and married my grandmother, Olga MIZRACH, and where my mother was born in 1938. In 1941 he was sent to Czernowitz where he had to work for the sugar factory in Zarojani. My grandmother followed with my mother (I assume that having other relatives - MIZRACHs - in Czernowitz made her decision easier). When deportations started, my grandfather managed to get hold of a permit - according to family lore, being the son of this father helped a lot. My mother still has her "carte de identitate" from that period (attached).
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/tmp/TAMLER_Adriana_Carte_Identitate_1942a.jpg
After the war, my grandfather managed to put his family of three on the list of repatriates to Romania (my grandmother's parents were still in Bucharest) - I found them on the lists Edgar Hauster so kindly provided - they crossed the border into Romania on March 12, 1946. Both my grandparents died in the 1977 earthquake. Hedwig Brenner knew them both.
Else went to study in Vienna and then Prague, where she was taken care of by uncle Wilhelm HALPERN (a first cousin of her mother and also the husband of her mother's sister Laura), with no children of his own. Both were deported from Prague (albeit at different times and to different places) and died in a concentration camp.
Eduard graduated from (probably) the same school as my grandfather Ernst in Czernowitz and then enroled to study law at the university of Czernowitz (his sister Edith says that he came home outraged when Jewish students were required to stand during lectures). But he must have already joined Betar, because in 1939 he left for Palestine - entering illegally on the ship Parita. There he joined the Irgun, to become one of its commanders (together with Menachem Begin) and fight the British. He died in a British bombing, not yet 29, two weeks before the dream he had been fighting for came true - the creation of Israel.
Edith also went to school in Czernowitz, until things started getting rough for Jews and she left school for private tuition. She had only just been married to a Christian and had a baby a few months old when the deportation order came to Zastawna in 1941. She would have been spared - being married to a Christian - but decided to leave the baby with her husband and leave with her mother and the rest of the family. She is the only one who survived Transnistria - because her husband did everything he could to find her and bring her back. [ This was held against him later by the Russians - "you must have had very special connections to the Romanians to manage this" - and so in 1944 he was sentenced to 15 years forced labour by a Soviet military tribunal ] Edith survived the war but did not join my grandfather - her brother - when he left for Romania in 1946, saying that she would join them later. She remained "locked" in Czernowitz until 1991, when she went to Israel. She is still living there and is the one who started me off with family history - as in spite of her age and health problems and of all the trials she has been through, her memory is excellent.
I grew up in Bucharest, went to German kindergarten and school - which was of course my grandfather's doing - for which I am eternally grateful, as I cannot imagine a better time than the one I had at school. I left Romania to settle in Germany in 1990 (my mother had been there since 1987). Recently I came back to Bucharest for a work assignment of my husband's. I have two children who now go to the same German school as both me and my husband went to. Sadly, it has changed beyond recognition and does not give them half the education or fun that I had ...
I also noticed the discussion on being "Austrian" - there are some bits and pieces I collected about this topic as well ... including the personal notes of Rudolf NEUMAN, younger brother of my great-grandmother Sabina TAMLER, born NEUMAN. [ Rudi was born 1895, he was decorated three times in WWI, went on to become a Polish officer in 1919, fought in the Polish-Russian war, was decorated there as well, escaped Poland in 1939 to go to France and join the Polish Army there, under General Sikorski, fought at Narvik in 1940 (now 45 years old) and was decorated by Poland, France and Norway ... and remained in the UK after WWII - thinking that all his family had been killed in the war, he died in 1980 ]. I managed to reconstruct almost his whole life, up to getting in in contact with a lady who was his "god-daughter" and who kept his medals and his personal notes. I am now working on translating them into German for my great-aunt in Tel Aviv.
All the best,
Dana Dimitriu
Bucharest, Romania / Wiesbaden, Germany
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