Re: [Cz-L] Eduard Samuel TAMLER

Dear Dana,

There was a Tamler couple in Montreal, now deceased.
Bernard & Gisela Tamler. They are both buried in the Baron de Hirsch
cemetery. If you would like to have a photo of their graves, I'll be glad
to do it for you. I will be at the cemetery office tomorrow anyway.

Mrs. Gisela Tamler was an elegant lady who passed away in her early 90's -
quite recently. She delivered very eloquent lectures at annual meetings of
the
Transnistria commemoration society in this city. She dressed in beautiful,
fashionable
suits and always wore a hat for these occasions.

Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana Dimitriu" <dana.dimitriu_at_web.de>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:05 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Eduard Samuel TAMLER

Hello all,

I am writing this message after reading Anny Matar's story, in which she
mentions Betar, on the slight chance that somebody might have known / heard
about my grandfather's younger brother. The family was not directly from
Czernowitz - rather from Zastavna - but all children went to school in
Czernowitz and the person I am enquiring about here was also enroled at
university for a short period of time.

Eduard (Edi) Samuel TAMLER was born on August 25, 1919 in Zastavna as the
third of four children to Dr. Abraham Ber and Sabina TAMLER. He went to the
L1 in Czernowitz (I only know that because one of the few surviving pictures
of him shows him as a schoolboy with a cap labelled "L1"; it was taken in
1936 and I am assuming it must have been intended for his school diploma).
During his time in Czernowitz, he stayed at the family of Dr. DIAMANT,
together with his younger sister, Edith (Medi). [Medi told me that Dr.
Diamant was a lawyer and he had two children: Kurt and Beatrice]

Edi wanted to study law and enroled at the university in Czernowitz; his
sister Medi told me that he was outraged at the way Jewish students were
treated (e.g. made to stand during lectures, etc.) and I am assuming that he
must have joined Betar around that time. He left home in 1938 and it is
unclear what he did until summer 1939, when he immigrated to Palestine on
the ship "Parita", which had been organized by the Irgun. Family lore has it
that on his way to Palestine he passed through Bucharest, where his older
brother, Ernst TAMLER (my grandfather) was living at the time - asking
Ernst, who was an engineer and had a very good hand for drawing, to write up
some false documents for him.

After arriving in Palestine, Edi went on to become a senior commander of the
Irgun; he used various pseudonyms - Eliyahu / George Sand, Gundar Yehoshua.
He was arrested in 1946 by the British, who fortunately did not realize who
he was (as he was "wanted" and would have been executed on the spot), and
was imprisoned in the Central Prison of Jerusalem - from where he escaped
with a few other Irgun fighters by digging a tunnel (which I am told one can
visit today). He then took over command for the Tel-Aviv / Jaffa region. He
was killed by a British shell on April 29, 1948, only two weeks before what
he had been fighting for became reality.

His younger sister, Medi, was the only one of the family deported to
Transnistria who survived. She was blocked in Czernowitz after the war. In
1989 she was invited to Israel by people who had known and been close to
Edi - and was allowed to go (thanks to Glasnost). She had to travel via
Bucharest, where she received her visa, and visited me and my father both on
her way to and back from Israel - this is how I know all these details. Medi
came back from Israel totally overwhelmed by the way she had been received
by the people who had known Edi (including a meeting with Menachem Begin)
and all these stories she had been told about him - we had not known any of
this before. To this day I do not know if my grandfather had known all
this - after all, he had been in Israel at least once during the early
1970s - I find it hard to believe that he didn't - however, if he did, he
never said a word about it to my mother - and I was only 9 when he died so
never got a chance to ask. Medi has also passed away.

If there is anybody out there who knew or heard about Edi even remotely, I
would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Dana Dimitriu

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Dana Dimitriu
Wiesbaden, DE
Email   dana.dimitriu_at_web.de
Fax     +49-3212-3262367
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Researching: BRECHMAN, BOLCHOVER, FISCHMAN(N), HALPERN, MIZRACH, NEUMAN(N), 
RABINOVICI, SCHERZ, TAMLER
in: Ataki, Gan Yavne, Husiatyn, Kopyczynce, Kozmin, New York, Prague, 
Putila, Rhode Island, Salvador de Bahia, Sereth, Tel-Aviv/Jaffa, Vienna, 
Zastavna
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