Czernowtizers...
Consistent with the 70th anniversary remembrance of the deportations,
here is a contribution:
This summer Noemi Eshet visited the Czernowitz Archives and took many
photographs. Among the items she photographed were pages from the
Register Books of those deported to Transnistria from Czernowitz.
Unfortunately the project is not complete as she ran out of time.
Upon her return she did an amazing job of transcribing the data from the
photographs onto several spreadsheets. Those of us who worked on the
Burial Registers, transcribing the cursive script in several languages
to English will well understand what a daunting and time consuming task
this was. Almost 700 names are in this dataset.
My work with Noemi was simply to integrate the photos and data into a
final spreadsheet with links back to the individual register photos.
Noemi did all the hard stuff. Some more work needs to be done (see
below).
The registers were done in cursive script, some written obviously by
persons whose first language was German, and the rest most likely
Romanians.
A register entry contains the following:
1. A line number, which corresponds to a line number in a photograph
2. A surname
3. A given name
4. Something about where the person lived (maybe district?)
5. Age,
6. Sex
7. Occupation
There obviously were different 'lists' from different registrars, and
some of the line numbers are duplicated. Thus when putting together a
combined database, I tried to distinguish between the lists. I called
them List 1, List 2 and List 3.
Noemi thinks that all the names in List 1 were deported to the same
place: the stone quarry (Steinbruch in German) ( Carieră de piatră
Ladijin in Romanian). The handwriting and the colour of the ink seems to
be the same. The other two lists have no particular differences other
than they share line numbers and so I separated them.
You will notice that one of the columns on my spreadhseet is called
'List Photo' and contains clickable links', and so by clicking on the
link, you can get from a particular name to the photograph of the
original register page that contained that name. The line numbers are
the same on the spreadsheet and the photo.
The sheet that is accessible with your browser is at:
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz14/noemi/test-1.html
This is an HTML page, and so it is searchable with your browser. It is a
fairly large file (2MB) and will take some time to load.
You will see that none of the occupations have been transcribed as
neither of us know Romanian. So there basically two jobs that remain to
be done: One is to transcribe the Romanian occupation into English and
enter them on the spreadsheet, and the other is to check each
transcribed name against the photograph and fix it if it's not correct.
If anyone is interested in participating in this, just email me and I
will try and set it up.
If you're interested in the XLS spreadsheet that the browser version was
made from, it can be downloaded at:
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz14/noemi/test-1.xls
And, if you need a high resolution photo of a register page, I have them
and can sent it to you.
Of course Noemi and I would be interested in any comments and/or
suggestions you might have. We hope you find this data interesting and
useful. When things are as complete as possible, I will put it with the
Ehpes Databases on the Website.
Best,
jerome
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