Re: [Cz-L] Praise of this list

Dear Bruce, Jerome et al,

You fellas are totally amazing - look all the work you
have and are doing and what a success it has become!
Yasher Koach to all of you,

Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Reisch" <bir1_at_cornell.edu>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Praise of this list

> Thanks everyone. But any success has to be shared with many others. Carl
> Ulrich and Nick Martin started the whole thing, around 1998. We quickly
> grew to about 28 members simply emailing each other sharing knowledge of
> our Sadagora and Czernowitz ancestry. As we continued to grow, it became
> too difficult for everyone to maintain a group email list with all current
> members. So the idea of a listserve based list was born and agreed upon.
> In June 2002, the Czernowitz list was started with our original 28
> subscribers.
>
> Jerome Schatten was the very first new member to join. He'd been
> corresponding with Aizic Sechter, one of our "originals", and signed right
> on. We then announced our existence to several other mailing lists, and
> by June 12 we had 47 subscribers. Jerome offered to create and maintain a
> web site for the group, and <czernowitz.ehpes.com> was born.
>
> Without the vision of Nick Martin and Carl Ulrich, the leadership of
> Jerome Schatten, and the continuing contributions of all of you to the
> discussions that fascinate and enlighten us, there would be little to crow
> about. Personally, I've learned so much from people like Edgar Hauster,
> Mimi Taylor, Merle Kastner, Fred Schneider, Abraham Kogan and many many
> others, that I can't begin to thank you all.
>
> Early on we were delighted to find a few original Czernowitzers like Perl
> Fichman and Fritzi Schiffer (of Sadagora). Now it seems like we've
> reunited so many original Czernowitzers. It's an accomplishment that I
> couldn't possibly anticipate. We've also helped reunite families long
> separated by the holocaust - one such reunion received international
> attention and a few of you might remember the news in 2006:
> http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3305554,00.html
>
> Whatever I have done has been gratifying, but please let me share the
> thanks to the many others who have had a part in making this list and
> associated web site such a success.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Bruce (proud to be a distant cousin of Mimi, Merle, and probably a few
> others on this list!)
>

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