[Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: September 10, 2010 - letter collection

Hello Bob,

you might want to try The Wiener Library http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
If I am not much mistaken, they already have similiar material.
Although I personally think that such a collection should be held in a local library or museum, but perhaps there is no suitable place in Czernowitz? The Jewish Museum springs to mind but it is perhaps too small? and I am assuming one would need to arrange for specific preservation of these papers ... There is a museum in Bucharest as well, but I would have the same reservation about it.

All the best,

Dana Dimitriu

Wiesbaden, DE
Email dana.dimitriu_at_web.de
Fax +49-3212-3262367

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Gesendet: 11-Sep-2010 06:25:49
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Betreff: czernowitz-l digest: September 10, 2010
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>Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Deciphering German script
>From: "Robert Burton" <robert.burton_at_rogers.com>
>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:20:48 -0400
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>Hello all with wishes for a sweet and healthy year.
>
>I also have no German to speak of, but many letters and documents that I
>would dearly loved to have translated. My parents were able to get out to
>Toronto Canada just as the War was breaking out. They arrived in New York
>City on August 22 and were in Toronto - after being held a few days until
>the US cleared their Visas - by September 2 and wrote to their parents on
>the 4th.They came to Canada on special "Orders in Council", orders made by
>the Cabinet of the Government, because they had money and had undertaken to
>open a factory and create jobs.
>
>I have over 250 letters from them to their family and back. I also have
>several documents, mostly in Romanian. The letters from my grandfather were
>written in the old German script. Some of the letters have been glanced at,
>and a huge part of them was the repeated futile, and by the end of 1940,
>frantic attempts to get exit documents from the Romanians and entry
>documents from Canada. There are many other business letters. 
>
>This is a very substantial undertaking, and I do not want to give the stuff
>to an archive only to have the box put in a cellar somewhere. I had thought
>that an archive might receive the collection in exchange for having it
>translated. If I could get a tax deduction for the gift, I would donate it
>to the archive. But it does not seem to be a practice. So, I too am hoping
>that one of you can offer to translate even a part of this fairly unique
>collection.
>
>If anyone can help me, I would be grateful.   
>
>Bob Burton
>
>Robert Burton
>Cobob Holdings Limited
>307 Sheppard Avenue East
>TORONTO, Ontario
>Canada M2N 3B3
>
>Tel:  416 226 6895, Ext. 29, 
>Fax: 416 223 0321
>
>
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