Re: [Cz-L] Popovici --more data

I clearly remember the green ink in which, for $10,000 Lei, our name was added to my uncle's typed certificate. We were too afraid to use it. Luckily, we obtained our own certificate some weeks later and were able to remain in CZ.
Frieda

On May 18, 2012, at 3:22 AM, Mordecai Lapidot <lapidotm_at_zahav.net.il> wrote:

> Chapeau to Liviu Carare for having located and published the fascinating,
> horrifying, but greatly revealing document of the Commission of Inquiry set
> up by the Fascist Authorities re the saving of more than 20000 of Czernowitz
> Jews (myself and my parents and relatives amongst them) from deportation to
> Transnistria.
> Having read the Romanian report of the Commission it is clear to me that in
> a way the Commission "laundered" the actions that were performed by Popovici
> and the other officials involved. As they mention there - you cannot prove
> the actions of bribery since neither the bribers nor the bribed can be
> expected to volunteer confirmation of their acts... As if the Sigurantza of
> the Fascist Regime could not have extracted the information had they wished
> to do so... All they mentioned in detail in their report were the
> discrepancies they discovered in the lists of those who were saved, e.g.
> persons that were obviously not of the profession that was recorded, or the
> names added in pencil or ink to the typed lists.
> I was 8 year old at the time but aware, from rumours that went around
> between the grown-ups, that apparently some bribery was involved. However it
> was believed not to be related to Popovici himself but to the many
> intermediaries. Now I learned a lot about what really happened from this and
> the other articles mentioned below.
>
> Chapeau also to Edgar for locating this article by Liviu Carare. It is
> worthwhile to enter his name in Google - I found a number of interesting
> related articles by him.
> One about our Ghetoization in Czernowitz - CONSIDERAŢII PRIVIND PROCESUL DE
> GHETOIZARE
> A EVREILOR DIN CERNĂUŢI
> http://www.history-cluj.ro/Istorie/anuare/AnuarBaritHistorica2010/07.pdf
>
> Another - a collection of articles "Partide politice şi minorităţi naţionale
> din România în secolul XX" includes some interesting articles:
> one on p. 11 "The Resolution of the Hebrew Issue in the Romanian
> Principalities (1848-1866) between Political Will and Social Failure",
> one by Lya Binyamin on p 51 "Idei diriguitoare în Mişcarea Sionistă din
> România. Congresul Sionist din 1919", and
> one on p 247 by Liviu Carare based on the above mentioned report of the
> Commision of Inquiry "Deportările din Cernăuţi (1941). Mărturii pe baza unui
> raport de anchetă informativă"
> http://istorie.ulbsibiu.ro/cercetare/Texte/Partide%20politice%20%205.pdf
> as well as few others related to antisemitism in Romania and fate of Jews in
> other cities - e.g. Transilvania. Of course, only for those of us who still
> read Romanian, but all can benefit of the abstracts in English.
> Shabbat Shalom
> Mordecai
>
>
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