Re: [Cz-L] Teenager Communists and the Torture!?

Dear Edgar,

thank you for posting the articles and for the list of names. The
conditions in the Czernowitz prison of the period are described in
deatil by Yechiel Shraibman
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechiel_Shraibman), a prominent Yiddish
writer, in his autobiographical novels "Yorns un reges" and "Vayter".
Shraybman himself was one of these teenage prisoners in the early
1930ies. In the novels he mentions several of his fellow
"revolutionaries" not listed in Der Tag, including father and son
Vestlers, Yaksl Stein, Boris Lerner (killed by the Nazis in Paris for
participation in the French resistance), Benyomin Jurgrau (died in
Madrid, fighting in the Spanish civil war, together with Abraham
Weissman, who is mentioned in Der Tag). Both Weissman and Jurgrau were
important figures in the Czernowitz communist underground, Weissman
was the secretary of the city committee of the Romanian Communist
party, Jurgrau was one of the leaders of the Communist Youth League.

Iosif Vaisman

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hardy, Peter, Berti, Harry, Abraham, Anny, Irene, Silviu...
>
> Thank you first of all for your outstanding
> comments on my posting. Peter, as you assumed,
> our "Czernowitzers" are not surprised at all by
> the persecution of the so-called "communists".
> Anny, nor me, as I am aware of the following
> course of history. But nevertheless, let's keep
> in mind, that we are talking of teenagers, pupils
> and students mainly. However their "convictions
> were 'pure'" beyond any doubt and therefore I'm
> much more outraged than surprised.
>
> Let me now add some facts, figures and names. The
> Czernowitz prison at that time was dimensioned -
> including the daily rations - for 200 prisoners,
> but in fact 400 people were kept imprisoned, 100
> [!] of them being considered as "communists". So,
> there was not "only" humiliation, violence and
> torture, in addition the prisoners were beset by
> hunger. These brave "Czernowitz Teenager
> Communists" stand for a good cause. I've
> excerpted their names and the names of their
> lawyers from the articles in "Der Tag"
> (http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.com/) between
> March and November 1932 as follows:
>
> DEFENDANTS:
> Andreiczuk, Saveta
> Baron, Henie
> Bascauteanu, Polia
> Bendit, Julius
> Beutel, Dawid
> Blickstein, E.
> Braunstein, Srul
> Bunsdorf, Oswald
> Burg, B.
> Chapirer, Charlotte
> Dembicki, Luise
> Einhorn, Lisa
> Engel, N.
> Färber, Litman
> Favinschi, J.
> Feldmann, Jossi
> Frischmann, Karl
> Gabe, H.
> Ghelmann, Alexander
> Gluzmann, A.
> Grecul, Ion
> Griseanu, J.
> Halm, Frieda
> Herzig, Dagobert
> Hoch, Demostenes
> Huber, Luise
> Indig, Ignatz
> Kirmayer, Severin
> Klein, E.
> Kniaski, Katarina
> Krasnopolski, Mart.
> Kreinisch, Aron
> Kurzberg, J.
> Lanowski, Alexander
> Lapides, Moses
> Linker, Gisela
> Locker, B.
> Lubin
> Majewski, Teofil
> Mandrici, Viktor
> Medyalnski
> Meerbaum, Toni
> Meiselmann, Rosa
> Melzer, Natan
> Müller, N.
> Niederhofer, Abraham
> Nuricz, Anton
> Ölberger, Adolf
> Pochmarski, G.
> Rainer, Rosa
> Reischmann, Pepi
> Roitschenker, Sonia
> Roll, Walter
> Salamander, Jos.
> Schajowicz, Berl
> Scherzer, Moritz
> Schloimovici, Alexander
> Schuster, Mermann
> Seidmann, Leib
> Sinnreich, Edith
> Somko, Stefan
> Sommer, Iosef
> Stup, Heinrich
> Teicher, Max
> Teller, J.
> Tokgaus, Ira
> Türk, Rosa
> Weißberg, Mordko
> Weißberg, Moses
> Weißmann, Abraham
> Weißmann, Michel
> Wolf, Abraham
> Wolf, Mendel
> Zuczka
>
> DEFENSE LAWYERS:
> Dorostei
> Hitzig, Ida
> Barlescu
> Edelstein
> Mandelbaum
> Pariser
> Schmierer
> Schwammental
> Adelstein, Nicu
> Bitter, Jakob
> Hitzig, Siegfried
> Hausknecht, Louis
> Kupferschnmied, Aron
> Melzer, Friedrich
> Radulescu (Prof.)
> Rosenzweig, Siegfried
> Schapirin
>
> Best wishes to you, thank you once more for your
> comments and let's hope, that the forest fire
> fighting on Mount Carmel will be completed
> successfully as soon as possible!
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
>
> http://hauster.blogspot.com/
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