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

First of all, thank you so much, Gerhard, Asher, Mimi and Arthur for your most impressive contributions! That's, what we are looking for, eyewitness reports, facts and figures!

Hardy, let me try to give an answer to you, by quoting Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer (Ghosts of Home - The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, p. 191):

"One name that comes up quite often in connection to Cernauti in this period [June 1942] is that of Lieutenant Stere Marinescu, head of the Office of Jewish Affairs II. This man and his coworkers worked under the governor and took massive bribes both locally, from individual Jews, and from Jewish organizations in Bucharest, always promising not to organize further deportations and assuring the safety of Jews remeining of Cernauti. Many of those who bribed him individually were deported so as not to be able to testify to his corruption."

Fortunately, his plans finally didn't work out

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19450601&id=abEuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HWEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1787,4189005

but let's continue by quoting Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer (Ghosts of Home - The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, p. 191):

"It is possible that Marinescu himself, and not directive from Bucharest, ordered the June 1942 deportations of those four thousand Jews who only had Popovici authorizations. The deportation orders were signed by the governor, but Marinescu himself carried out the evacuations with great brutality"

You'll find the basis for this statement at Matatias Carp, Holocaust in Romania, Facts and Documents of the Annihilation of Romania's Jews 1940-1944, pp. 201-222, quoted at:

http://www.holocaustrevealed.org/_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/Romania/Matatias/Transnistria6.htm

In my eyes, the events proceeded completely chaotically in October 1941, no means of transportation were available in due time, no structures were established, even not (yet) for bribing, in marked contrast to June 1942, when the maximum bribing profit could be realized, as the Stere Marinescu case is demonstrating.

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

http://hauster.blogspot.com/

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> From: HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET
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> CC: bconcept_at_hotmail.com; berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com; czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu; romers_at_shaw.ca
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Rescue Operation of Czernowitz Jews - A Joint Venture
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:41:25 +0200
>
> Permits:
> 14 Oct 1941 - 20,000 authorized from Bucharest.
> only 15,900 issued by Calotescu ,
> Later 4000 or so Popovici permits but in
> 1942 annuled and holders partially deported .
> Can somebody explain this Gesheft ?
> Hardy

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