Re: [Cz-L] Ghetto perimeter fence

Actually, in this case there are no choices in mapping the
"Inconoştiinţare" - the text is clear and unambiguous, it reads: "in
cartierul delimitat de străzile" which means "in the neighborhood
bordered [or bounded] by streets". The following list of streets and
landmarks describes (very precisely) the external boundary of the
ghetto. The line on my map shows this boundary.

Unfortunately, Leo's map is inconsistent even with his own
interpretation (e.g., Wilson, Ion Greanga and O.Josif are highlighted,
although they are not mentioned in the list). On the other hand, some
streets in the ghetto are not marked (e.g., Evreiasca and Arbore), and
some highlighted streets were outside of the ghetto (e.g., western
half of General Mircescu and southwestern half of Rasboleni).

Iosif

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Leo Spitzer <poldispitzer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hardy is right:  We can (1) accept the "hard" evidence we do have --the
> Ordodonta (a document from October 1941) -- plus the oral recollections
> (like Berti's) and memoirs  that describe what the witnesses saw and
> remember, or (2) we can move into the realm of imagination/fiction to
> present what we think "should have been" according to our own subjective
> notions of what "makes sense" or not.  Certainly, from one perspective, it
> does not make sense not to enclose the ghetto with a fenced perimeter.  But
> from another perspective -- given the speed with which the ghetto was
> established, the brevity of its existence, as well as the logistical
> problems involved in building a parameter fence enclosing an area that also
> housed large numbers of non-Jews -- it was probably easier, cheaper, and
> less generally disruptive to control access and exit from individual ghetto
> streets with barbed wire and make-shift gates guarded by gendarmes.  I do,
> of course, appreciate fiction and imagination and enjoy the discussions we
> have been having about this.  But, in this case, the historian in me wins
> out: I lean towards what we do know factually.  But I will happily be
> convinced if anyone offers a single shred of hard evidence that points
> toward the existence of a totally fenced-in perimeter.
> Best, Leo

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