Re: [Cz-L] Deciphering German script

Dear all,
Mimi's comments about the preservation of documents are crucial. There are many willing and helpful repositories. The USHolocaust Muesum, Yad Vashem, and also Leo Baeck Instittute which deals with German-speaking Jews and is a very good institution. If anyone is interested in donating documents or copies of documents, you might write to the archivist at Leo Baeck for advice: Frank Mecklenburg, frank mecklenburg <frankmecklenburg_at_yahoo.com>.
It would be so helpful for future researchers if our Czernowitz documents stayed together in one repository, but in the internet era they can always be assembled from different sources.

all best, Marianne
On Sep 12, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Miriam Taylor wrote:

> Hello Robert and all Czernowitzers.
>
> Like Robert, I have a lot of documents and private correspondence between
> various relatives and my parents. These documents and letters were not
> written on acid-free paper and therefore in time will yellow and become
> brittle, eventually disintegrating. It is therefore important to keep them
> in climate controlled storage. The Holocaust Museum in Washington DC,
> has both the interest and the facilities to preserve any material which
> pertains to the WW2 period. I do not know definitely, but imagine, that so
> does Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Radu Ioanid is the conservator at the
> Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. I would write him and ask if he is
> interested in the material you have. His Email address is:
> "Ioanid, Radu" <rioanid_at_ushmm.org>
>
> I doubt that you could get a tax deduction for giving the documents and
> correspondence to any museum or archive, simply because there is no market
> for such items, and therefore no possible estimate of their monetary value.
>
> I have previously looked without success, for researchers working on the
> history of central European Jews, during the period shortly before and
> during WW2. I think that it would be most interesting to write such a
> history as experienced by individual people, as evident from their
> correspondence.
>
> If any members of the list know of such research being done by anyone,
> anywhere, please let the rest of us know.
>
> I still have not given up the idea of publishing a collection of stories,
> essays, reminiscences, documents and letters by members of this list. So
> far, I have not been successful in finding a publisher, but as soon as I am
> less busy with the Czernowitz Jewish cemetery restoration, I will try some
> more and if I cannot find a publisher, we may consider self-publishing.
>
> Last but not least, Robert, I am willing to try and translate some of the
> letters of your grandfather. Scan some and send them to me.
> My parents went through the same, mostly futile, attempts to get entry visas
> to a safe country. Even though I was less than three years old in the spring
> of 1940, my mother told me of one of the funny incidents which happened at
> that time; one afternoon, when my mother came to pick me up after my
> afternoon nap, she found me holding my teddy bear and saying to him in a
> grave voice: "Nichts zu machen, der Consul war nicht da."
> ( nothing could be done, the consul was not there).
> My father had traveled somewhere, possibly Bucharest, in order to speak to
> the Chilean consul, only to find that the consul was away.
>
> Baruch she-hechianu, ve-kiemanu ve-higianu la-zman ha-zeh!
> I am not religious, but when I think of what our parents or grandparents
> went through, I am grateful to have survived, be alive and be able to tell
> about it.
>
> Mimi

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