Re: [Cz-L] Macedonia

Having the Holocaust exposed in the jewish museum would not have cost
anything.
  No economic burden to the municipality.
   The Ghetto memorial plate should have been redone ?
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "fred love" <fredhotman_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Macedonia

>I agree with Hardy and Fred that we would like a "Holocaust Museum"
> to exist in Chernivtsi, as a a reminder of the past and a memorial to the
> victims.
> But I do not think that the reason, no such museum exists in Czernowitz
> now,
> should be blamed on the city authorities. We must consider that the city
> and the region as a whole, have more immediate economic problems.
> In most places where a Holocaust museum has been built, the initiative
> and
> the funds to do this , whether local or general, came from Jewish
> organizations.
>
> There are many reminders of the Jewish past in Chernivtsi; the paving
> stones
> inscribed with the Yiddish name of the city on the former Herrengasse,
> the Jewish museum, commemorative plaques to Jewish individuals in various
> places,
> etc.
>
> The reluctance of the city authorities to allow a commemorative plaque
> to Traian Popovici be put up, was not due to their reluctance to remember
> the Jewish history of the city, but because they did not want to honor a
> Romanian
> who had been nominated by the wartime Romanian Fascist government.
> Once I agreed that Popovici would not be called mayor in the Ukrainian
> inscription,
> they agreed to the plaque being put up and even had a public ceremony in
> which
> members of the city council played a major role.
>
> The reason the Jewish cemetery was in much worse condition than the
> Christian
> one, was mostly because descendants of the Christians interred in the
> cemetery,
> took better care of their ancestors graves.
> By the way, Dr. Bursuk recently managed to raise a reasonably large sum
> of money
> from the local Jewish community, in order to pay for the clearing of
> about two hectares
> of the cemetery.
>
> Mimi
>
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