Re: [Cz-L]Popovici authorizations

Good evening,

both Popovici authorizations and Obodovca are part of my family story - strange coincidence ...

My grandfather, Ernst TAMLER, managed to obtain a Popovici authorization for himself, his wife Olga, born MIZRACH, and his daughter Adriana - my mother. Without this permit I guess I would not be here to write this email :-) Opapa was assigned to work in the sugar factory in Zarojani. My mother tells the story of him coming home from the factory every now and then although he did not have permission to do so. He came on a cart with a peasant and one day the cart was stopped by a Romanian officer who wanted a ride to a place on the road - Opapa thought he was in for it as the peasant was surely going to denounce him? All the way until he got off, the officer bragged about his doings, including of course all sorts of "activities" regarding the "jidani" - but the peasant just kept his mouth shut and never said a word ...

On the other hand, my great-grandmother, Sabina TAMLER, born NEUMANN, widowed, was deported to Transnistria in October 1940 from Zastavna together with her younger brother Otto NEUMANN and his wife Regine and his children Irene and Martin. Sabinas youngest daughter, Edith, decided to accompany her mother even though being married to a Christian she would have been spared the deportation at that point. She left her husband Julian DRABIC and her newborn daughter behind - and is the only one of the deported family who survived, and the reason why I know the story. Sabina and Otto and his family died in Obodovka of typhus, probably in January 1941. Edith also had typhus - but being barely over 19 she was probably strong enough. Her husband managed to bring her back from Obodovka, for which he later had to pay dearly - the Soviets accused him of collaboration with the Romanians (how else could he have succeeded in getting his wife back from Transnistria?) and after a secret military trial sent him to Siberia for 17 years.

So far I have never come across anybody mentioning Obodovca, I am wondering Emil if you would be willing to share your stories?

Regarding saints / sinners / other such categories ... I do not believe in people being only good / only bad / only wise / etc. - there are two sides to everything and everybody in this world. Some people behave decently under normal circumstances but turn into abominable characters when put under pressure - yet for others, difficult or critical situations bring out the best in them. I mean no disrespect - I only think it is difficult to know beforehand - and after facts have been consumed, nothing can be changed. I am sure Traian Popovici was not a saint who did only right - but I think what matters is that he stood up to help people - how many of them is secondary, as the saying goes „Wer auch immer ein einziges Leben rettet, der ist, als ob er die ganze Welt gerettet hätte” - "whoever saves a single life, it is considered as if he had saved the entire world".

Kind regards,

Dana Dimitriu

Wiesbaden, DE
Email dana.dimitriu_at_web.de
Fax +49-3212-3262367

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>Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Call for Survivors thanks to Popovici!
>From: Emil Hitzig 
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:59:08 +0200
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>Dear movie makers,
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>Despite of getting a such authorization, my family spend the long journey in Obodovca (Transnistria). 
>When the drunk Romanian gendarmes pickup my family from our apartment in a late Friday afternoon, the authorization was helpless.
>People not holding such authorizations, usually left their houses by hiding far from the Jewish quarter.
>In the heritage of my family I'm holding such authorization. This was the authorization no: 10287 and  was nothing worth, perhaps for a fake story.
>I'm in doubt of the:  "TWENTY TWO THOUSAND SAINTS". This number is highly exaggerated.
>Obviously the entire saga of saving Jewish lives during the holocaust is more a legend, then reality.
>Before someone will elaborate the script for this movie, please try to find out the real number of Survivors thanks to Popovici authorization.
>Don't glide to political amplifications such".  There were people of character during the Inquisition and during various revolutions.   
>The Righteous Among the Nations  as recorded by Yad Vashem were found in 44 countries. There were even Muslims who saved Jewish lives".
>If you found a potential co-producer in Romania (make sense), this will serve the actual Romanian authorities to clear their ancestors from the ROMANIAN HOLOCAUST.
>From Andy Halmay's statement:
>Telefilm Canada, that there had been a problem in Romania s counterpart to Telefilm and that we were not to initiate any co-productions with Romania. 
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>MAY BE ,THE CANADIANS KNOW MUCH MORE.
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>Finally this is not a grain of doubt, it is a heavy stone.
>Don't mislead people that experienced this hardship, by involving Schindler, Spielberg, and Dustin Hoffman.
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>Best regards,
>Emil Hitzig
>P.S. If there are people saved thanks to Popovici authorization, please rise up.
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