Re: [Cz-L] My trip to Czernowitz

To Noemi Eshet and all members of the Cz.-List:

The Czernowitz Jewish cemetery is currently overgrown with vines and new
growth from the stumps of the trees and bushes which have been cut during
the last few years. The cemetery administration neglected to spray with
herbicides the areas which were cleared through the efforts of CJCRO,
the volunteers of SVIT Ukraine and ASF Germany.

The cut wood which Noemi saw at the cemetery is not wood stored for heating,
it is the sapling trees which have been cut recently, as the last part of
the cemetery is being cleared of them. They will be hauled away.

The traces of fire, are in places where workmen, too lazy to move the cut
branches, set them on fire near the gravestones. That particular group of
workmen is no longer working in the cemetery.

CJCRO is well aware of the damage vines and assorted creeping, climbing
plants cause the tombstones, particularly those made of sandstone or
limestone. We are planning to have all this new vegetation removed
and work to do so has started on the northern part of the cemetery,
to the right of the main part of the cemetery.

Anyone interested in information about the cemetery, please access
the section on the Czernowitz/Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery on Ehpes;
> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/
This section includes a satellite map, which shows the cemetery clearly.
It also includes information about CJCRO and the work it has done and is
trying to do at the cemetery.

Photographs taken at the cemetery over the last 3 years can be found at:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/MReiferTaylor

Mimi

On 9/24/11 4:20 PM, "noemi eshet" <ieshet_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:

> Dear Czernowiters,
>
> I returned home 4 days ago. I dind't have time to upload the photos, but
> I'll do it soon...
> I spent 4 days in Cz. I wish I would've stayed longer....
> some remarks:
>
> ARCHIVE
>
> I visited the CZ archive. I managed with German and a little Romanian +
> dictionary). There was a very nice Ukrainian archivist, (NATALYA
> MASSIAM), who spoke German as well, and helped me a lot. Unfortunately,
> I've spent just a few hours in the archive. I was 4 days in CZ and only
> on the last day. the archive was open.. (bad timing). Besides, I was
> with my 18 years old daughter who was board in the archive. I was lucky
> to meet nice Romanian archivists who spoke English and helped me with
> the Romanian.... I found my mother and father's family members names on
> the scary list of Jews who were deported to the camps in Transnistria.
> I've found out that both families stood close to each other in the line.
> I guess my parent got to know each other in that railway station, before
> they were deported. I had tears in my eyes while touching these horrible
> lists.
>
> I've asked to search for info about my grandfather's KARA business, and
> about the family members. they didn't want to take money for info they
> thought I might not find there. The Germans speaking woman Archivist, )
> NATALYA MASSIAM, was extremely kind and helpful. she refused to receive
> any extra money, just a gift I brought for her from Israel.
>
> Besides, I visited my grandfather's properties. the Russian woman who
> lives in the EX factory has told us that it used to me a Textile
> factory.
>
> Cemetery
>
> I was shocked to see the Jewish graveyard. an URGENT (!!!!!!!!!!)
> cleaning must take place NOW!!!! Despite the excellent cleaning work
> done by German volunteers, a huge part of the Cemetery looks like a
> jungle! the bushes and plant who grow there DESTROY the tomb stones!!!!
> I've tried to cut away some wild growing who were attached to tomb
> stones. I couldn't reach the graves of my family, because of the
> enormous dense Vegetation. unbelievable!!! As an architect who
> specializes in renovation, I learned about stone destruction, and
> Vegetation is one of the stone destroyers!!! I've seen seak
> stone tombs whose stone layers peeled off. tombstones who weren't
> touched by Vegetation, look good and it's possible to read the diseased
> names carved ithe stone.
>
> I've also saw vandalism, mostly in new tomb stones, written in the
> Russian language.
>
> Besides, people use the Jewish graveyard to store cut wood for heating
> in the winter (!!!). I've also noticed places where objects were burnt.
> (maybe dirt?)
>
> I've taken photos and will email them to you after I upload it......
> Mini, I'm sorry I didn't succeed to find anything in the graveyard. I
> was lost there!!!
>
> Besides, the plots must be mapped and signed as in nowadays graveyards,
> since it's impossible to find anything there despite the graveyard
> map!!!!
>
> I've tried to locate myself there, using the map and information from
> landmarks like important toms tones, but despite all my efforts, no
> achievement. I think I managed to locate the area where my family is
> burried, an even tried to reach the zone, but except scratches and
> bites all over, nothing!
>
> Poems that my father wrote in the Tulcin camp in Transnistria during
> 1943-44
>
> During my stay in Bukowina Hotel, I met a group of poet who came to CZ
> for the MERIDIAN event. I was interviewed by Michael Augustin‏ for the
> Bremen Radio. https://www.facebook.com/michael.augustin.poet
> A very moving encounter in Czernowitz with Noemi Eshet Rosenzweig from
> Israel who has found the house where her family lived before being
> deported to Transnistria. Her father has written many poems while in the
> camp. Noemi gave me a copy of the poems which she has found many years
> after her father's death.
>
> I had a meeting in the Jewish museum CZ with Professor Dr. PETRO RYCHLO
> from the CZ university, who showed great interest in my father's poems.
> Professor Dr. PETRO RYCHLO, together with Mr. Mykola KUSCHNIR
> Director of the Jewish museum and the museum stuff, have recognized
> among my father's photos, a photo of the poet Paul Celan with my father
> Karl Rosenzweig. (THE POETS Paul Celan and Selma Meerbaum were my
> mother's relatives.
>
> Shabath Shalom and Shana Tova,
>
> Noemi
>
> [Some photographs from Noemi's trip are on the website at:
> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/tmp/noemitrip/NoemiEshet.html ]

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