Re: [Cz-L] June 22, 1941

Hi Anni, what a terrible story, I bnew the Gelband-shoe-shop in the
Hauptstarsse, very well known for good quality shoes..it was opposite to the
shop of my uncle Agatstein..."Tricotaje" (At Ringplatz was also in the 20.th
a big shoe-shop "Salamander", I remember the owner named Dubenski, his son
was a famous actor and his daughter Ilse was "Miss Roumania) The uncle
Hermann Agatstein and his wife Amalia, were also hidden and gave up, and
because the apartment was "versiegelt" the aunt came to my mother for some
clothes and underware because they had nothing...so they went to Sibirien,
the aunt died for hunger, he survived , maried there ms Auerbach, whose
husbund also died there, and came with her1965 to Israel, (she had some rich
family, who bought them aut,,,not only Ceausescu was a bussynessman!!!!)
When I was for the first time alowed from Romania to travel alone (my
mother, husband, 2 children remained as custody there) to israel I met uncle
Agatstein at Tivon and I heard tfor the first time he whole terrible story,
also that my cousin Edith Agatstein, maried at Tours, France, she and her
husband, physicians, with their 8 years old boy, were deported to
Auschwitz,where she and the boy were immediatly gazed, the husband was
"lagerarzt" at DR/Mengele and surwived...
Hedwig Brenner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
To: "Dov Glaobek" <berti_at_netvision.net.il>
Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] June 22, 1941

> Dear all,
> I well remember that day. My step-father Max Gelband after having been
> hiding in fields and I with friendly families from the beginning of the
> deportations gave himself up. My mother had been under GPU observation in
> the Jewish Hospital after an accident. When my Gelband gave himself up he
> was taken to the "sammelstelle" (concentration centre) of al those to be
> transported. Someone who slept near him the night he was brought in and
> heard him cry asked for his plight.He told him his story and the man
> voluteered to write an application on toilette paper with a Tintenstift in
> Russian asking to be released and as my mother was in their hands he
> assured
> them that I and the whole family will be ready for deportation with the
> next
> tansport. He was in the train already when his name was called out a
> moment
> before the doors were shut. The Russians who had housed in our home left
> and
> we were united. Mother was brought home from hospital that very night by
> ambulance. Thus we escaped Russian occupation and deportation. That very
> night there were the explosions. Mother, still very ill, said to me: There
> will be German culture and newspapers anything is better than what we had
> gone through. She still believed that the Germans were human beings,
> naive?
> hope? incredibility??
> Anyway, no one knew, how terrible the future will be but, the past
> Russian
> year was too greater nightmare for us personally, so I suppose one had to
> hope? - the rest is history or as Mimi said "daca n'ar fi nu s'ar povesti"
> anny
>

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