Re: [Cz-L] Rescue Operation of Czernowitz Jews - A Joint Venture

A chilling story Mimi, but there are so many.
Thank you for sharing that with us.

Merle

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Cc: "Winters, Stephen" <Stephen.Winters_at_atlantichealth.org>; "Edgar Hauster"
<bconcept_at_hotmail.com>; "Berti Glaubach" <berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>;
"Czernowitz Discussion Group" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>; "Jerome Schatten"
<romers_at_shaw.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Rescue Operation of Czernowitz Jews - A Joint Venture

> Let me clarify;
>
> The ghetto was in existence 9 weeks, from Oct 11 till Dec. 13.
> I think that during that time there were deportations to Transnistria
> whenever there was a train available. People were deported
> whether they had had a chance to claim their Popovivi permit or not.
> Popovici started giving the permits only after Nov. 16th or 17th.
>
> From my own experience I can tell you, that sometime between
> Nov. 20th and the 26th, my father insisted that my mother go see a
> Romanian doctor in the expectation, that he would certify that
> she was too sick to be deported to Transnistria.
> The doctor Notified the military command of our address in the ghetto.
> On the evening of Nov. 27th, My mother and I were the only ones home,
> out of the 21 people who had shared the apartment of the Schaechter
> family,
> since Oct. 14th. Many had been deported and Mrs. Schaechter had
> also gone to get her permit.
> Two soldiers came and asked my mother for the Reifer family.
> My Mother said: Reifer? Nu conosc. (Reifer? Is not known to me.)
> The soldiers asked for her identity papers. She said to the soldiers:
> "My name is Solomon and because today they are giving authorizations
> to people who's names start with "S" my husband took all our papers with
> him
> in order to get the authorization".
> Luckily the soldiers did not search the apartment, because in the next
> room,
> all our rucksacks were clearly marked with the name Reifer.
> Had they realized we were the Reifer family, they would have taken us
> to the train station to be deported.
>
> Hardy asks:
>
>> If deportations continued until Dec 41 and permit issuing too until
>> December how could they prevent from an exempted person to be deported
>> during October and November ?
>
> I will answer the way a Romanian man answered me, many years later,
> when I was in Romania as a tourist. I was standing in line to see the
> inside
> of the royal summer palace in Sinaia, when I noticed this man with a lion
> cub,
> held only by a leash. In astonishment I said to the man: "Un leu?"
> He answered: "Da. I asked: Cum se poate?" (how is this possible?")
> And the man answered: "In Romania tot se poate". ( In Romania, all is
> possible.)
>
> One of my father's sisters had had polio and consequently limped.
> She was taken to the train station with my two other aunts and my
> grandmother.
> They were put on the train, but had to wait for a locomotive.
> At some point she asked the soldiers to let her get off, because she
> needed
> to go to the toilet. They let her. Just then the locomotive arrived and
> the train
> started moving, she tried to catch up with it, but could not and spent
> the rest
> of the war years, with my family.
>
> Mimi

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