RE: [Cz-L] Visit to Mohyliv-Podilskyi - A Team Work!

Mimi, Yosef, Abraham et al...

Thank you so much for sharing your memories with us. These kind of stories stay exactly at the basis of the volume to be published. The letters hold by the Czernowitz Regional Archives were confiscated from Albert Twers, a German lawyer from Radautz, married with a Jewish woman, excepted from deportation, baptized and being herself married with a Christian. Albert Twers, who assumed a very high risk, was a collegue and good friend of the father of the late Dorin Fränkel from Radautz. The daughters of Albert Twers still live in Romania, most probably in Cluj and Mangalia.

Unfortunately - as a matter of fact - the expectations of the Ukrainian side, in financial and editorial terms, were over the years much exaggerated. The translation works are completely done, but - for instance - the Czernowitz Regional Archives were asking for a unitary multilingual volume, consisting at least Ukrainian and Romanian translations; it's hard to find a Western publishing house accepting those terms.

Mimi, the USHMM may know about the letters, as Yad Vashem does, but for sure they haven't got copies of them and there is no way, to obtain those copies. The Archives deals with them like a treasure. I've seen some of these letters, the originals are in different languages, like German, Romanian, Yiddish. Most of them are desperate requests for assistance from the relatives and friends. The letters are heart-touching, but their historical significance is however limited.

Let's hope that a favourable solution will be identified soon.

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

http://hauster.blogspot.com/

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> From: eshet1_at_netvision.net.il
> To: mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu; bconcept_at_hotmail.com; czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
> CC: osborn_at_nuthatch.org; tuagtuag_at_gmail.com; obschina1989_at_mail.ru; simon.geissbuehler_at_eda.admin.ch; yefimk_at_verizon.net
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Visit to Mohyliv-Podilskyi - A Team Work!
> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:23:17 +0200
>
> There was a priest who used to transfer letters. This was prohibited
> (especially for the receiving deportees) by by the rule of the Romanian
> authorities. Anybody of the deportees caught receiving something from
> Czernowitz was brought to trial to the main court in Tiraspol, and sentenced
> to prison there. Before their withdrawal they put fire to the prison
> (luckily without much success). I can bear witness to that because my father
> was caught and we were sent to Tiraspol but escaped miraculously the trial.
> Yosef Eshet
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> To: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>; "CZERNOWITZ-L"
> <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> Cc: "Marla Raucher Osborn" <osborn_at_nuthatch.org>; "Alex Denisenko"
> <tuagtuag_at_gmail.com>; <obschina1989_at_mail.ru>; "simon geissb ü hler"
> <simon.geissbuehler_at_eda.admin.ch>; "Yefim Kogan" <yefimk_at_verizon.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 8:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Visit to Mohyliv-Podilskyi - A Team Work!
>
>
> > Edgar, as usual, you provide us with interesting and valuable information.
> >
> > The letter of Christina to Dr. Stern, reminded me that my parents were
> > able,
> > occasionally to send packages of clothing, as well as letters and money to
> > our relatives in Moghilev, occasionally we also received letters from
> > them.
> > This was done through, my father's cousin, Manfred Reifer, who had been
> > a delegate to the Romanian Parliament and even during the war enjoyed
> > certain unusual privileges.
> > I am curious to know, whether anyone knows of other such cases, where it
> > was possible to send letters, money or packages to Transnistria and if
> > yes,
> > how it was done.
> >
> > Mimi
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