[Cz-L] [Fwd: Re: Ghetto perimeter fence]

[I think this should have gone to the list --jerome]

From: Dov Glaubach <berti_at_netvision.net.il>
To: Marianne Hirsch <mh2349_at_columbia.edu>
Cc: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, I Vaisman <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>, jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, Arthur von Czernowitz <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>, Leo Spitzer <ls2307_at_columbia.edu>, Hedwig Brenner <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>
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Subject: Re: Ghetto perimeter fence

I told the story several times. At least until the region on the north/western side of the Hauptstrasse was still part of the Ghetto there was no problem of crossing to the rest of the town. The streets were closed with barbed wire at the intersections, but you could pass through backyards of houses to other parts of the town.
For example at some odd numbers of Stefaniegasse there was no problem to cross through Padinigasse to Franzensgasse. I did it several times after the 11/10. I don't know and have no personal experience about later when deportations started, and about the region around Landhausgasse or Russischegasse, but I recall several conversations with older friends, members of either Zionist or Communist youth organizations who managed to do the same thing in continuation (for what purpose I don't know). Of course some stories might have been invented or exaggerated - still the short time Czernowitzer Ghetto was definitely not hermetically closed.

Berti.

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From: Marianne Hirsch <mh2349_at_columbia.edu>
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011 16:46
Subject: Re: Ghetto perimeter fence
To: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Cc: I Vaisman <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>, jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, Arthur von Czernowitz <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>, Leo Spitzer <ls2307_at_columbia.edu>, Hedwig Brenner <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>, Berti Glaubach <berti_at_netvision.net.il>

> Hardy,As I understand it form available sources, streets were
> closed off at each intersection. Most streets connected but some
> adjacent streets are not listed as being part of the ghetto. Note
> that not all the streets included in Iosif's perimeter were listed
> in the ordonanta. Plus, the ghetto perimeters shifted everyday.
> Streets that had been emptied of Jews were no longer in the ghetto,
> and on a couple of occasions new streets were added to the ghetto,
> I suppose to diminish the terrible overcrowding and the threat of
> typhus that Popovici mentions in his Spovedania.
> I am copying Hedy and Berti in the hopes they can help.
>

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