Re: [Cz-L] Popovici at the Jewish Museum

In answer to Hardy about "the Popovici issue":

I could not access the article from live journal.
Is the Natalya quoted, Natalya Shevchenko?

Popovici certainly DID NOT SELL THE AUTHORIZATIONS, HE ISSUED

Who is Yevgenia Finkel? And what are her credentials?

If Yad Vashem declared Traian Popovici a "Righteous among the Nations" and
Radu Ioanid of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, gives evidence of all
Traian Popovici did in order to save the Jews of Czernowitz from being
deported, if we consider that in 1942, marshal Antonescu had Popovici
deposed from being mayor, if I, a Czernowitzer who lived in Czernowitz at
the time and was saved from being deported, never heard my parents or their
friends say that they had to bribe Popovici, does Yevgenia Finkel, know
better? Was she there?

It is necessary to answer this article in live journal, the truth should
prevail. Would someone volunteer to collect evidence from us, the survivors,
And write to live Journal?

If it is Natalya Shevchenko, who asserted that Popovici was not better than
Schindler, I will write to her myself.

Hardy and anyone else who knows more about this, please let us know more.

Mimi

On 5/6/10 1:50 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> http://pics.livejournal.com/whasup/pic/00p233r0
>
> From "Ghosts of Home " - the Popovici issue:
> Quote:( p.314)
> ³Then we have Traian Popovici, in whom you are all so interested,² Natalya
> continued. ³What are we supposed to do with him? Was he a Wallenberg or
> a Schindler? I think he sold the permits to stay in the city for a lot of
> money.
> I suspect he was a pragmatist, not a humanitarian. And that brings us to.
> the third problem, Jewish collaboration and the Jewish councils. Should we
> represent them? How?²
> We shared with Oleg and Natalya some of the evidence we had, and
> they showed us theirs_primarily the introduction written by Yevgenya Finkel
> to Juden aus Czernowitz, the five-volume collection of
> testimonies she edited, in which she claims that all authorizations to
> remain in the city in 1941 were sold.
>
> Clearly, we had different interpretations of limited sources. It was
> not likely we would come to an agreement on the character of
> Traian Popovici.
>
> Natalya was cynical. Oral sources, memoirs - she did not give them much
> credit, and yet she chose to believe Finkel¹s account."
> I say:
> Popovici was awarded the "Righteous among Nations "title by Ya-Vashem.
> If this in not trustworthy then all the titles thus awarded are
> questionable.
> Including the 2200 titles awarded to Ukraineans .
> As you can see Popovici's picture appears in the Museum
> captioned :" Mayor of Czernowitz" .
> Is there also an explanation why his picture is shown?
> Interesting to find out.
>
> Hardy
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