Re: RE: [Cz-L] Call for Survivors thanks to Popovici!

Popovici,
 His major and only contribution ,as far as we were concerned ,was
  the issuing of permits that let us stay in town.
   How he did it , why he did it is speculations.
    In Spovedanie the 4 days he spent in Bucharest to achieve the
  Antonescu consent are not detailed.
    But we know the result and this is what matters.

Hardy
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From: "Dov Glaubach" <berti_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "Emil Hitzig" <emilhg_at_013.net>
Cc: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "'veni vici'"
<venivici_at_inbox.com>; "'Czernowitz Genealogy and History'"
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: RE: [Cz-L] Call for Survivors thanks to Popovici!

>
> I think there is a mistake some of our corespondents make about Traian
> Popovici.
> His major contribution to Cz. Jewry was not the authorizations he gave out
> in his name. It is that in his role of mayor he (with probably the help of
> the Metropolit and the Queen) convinced the authorities in Bukarest that
> the Jews were needed for the war effort and thus should stay and work in
> the town. Of course only a very small minority was really needed for work,
> but the 19500 that got one or another sort of authorization were not
> deported to Transnistria in autumn 1941 and it is more then probable that
> a majority of them would not have come back. Like unfortunately a majority
> of the deported.
>
> We know that Traian was forced to resign after a time from his office
> because of his attitude towards
> the Jews and we also know that he personally did not gain anything
> material from his deeds. Others around him did.
>
> Although I think that a picture about him might not be the right way to
> reconstruct our history it would
> be a mistake to underrate the effect his deeds had for many of us. I know
> I might not be alive to-day if he had not acted as he did.
>
>
> Berti.
>

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