Dear Nathan,
The Rumanians took over Bukovina after the Congress of Bukovina
which ended on November 27, 1918.
Hedwig was born on September 27, 1918.
Hedwig was 3 month-old when this took place and a full fledged
Austrian and therefore entitled to the 4 citizenship status.
All who were born after Nov. 27, 1918 get only a 3-state status.
Sorry but these are the fact,
(Of course I arbitrarily picked the facts that would single out
Hedwig)
Hardy
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From: "Nathan Gross" <archnathan_at_hotmail.com>
To: <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>; <ariane.alpern_at_t-online.de>; "List Czernowitz"
<czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Hedwig Brenner
Dear Hardy,
Without diminishing the greatness of Hedy, our good friend, I must correct:
Hedwig Brenner is not the only living Czernowitzer who lived under these
regimes.
My mother, Sidi (Sidonia) Gross, who is (I think) only 2 years younger than
Hedy, has the same life-story, if not worse.
She and her sister Berta were sitting just behind you at Hedy's
medal-ceremony.
Sidi Gross was born on March 2nd, 1921 in Stanesti de Jos, just 21 miles
west of Czernowitz. Yesterday We celebrated her 91st birthday in my house,
with Hedwig Brenner's participation and some 25 other guests. She suffered
the pogroms the Ukrainian neighborhood population launched on their Jewish
neighbors, with the "blessing" of the Rumanian authorities before the
Soviets invaded North Bukowina on June 1940.
She endured this "First Russian Period" between June 1940 and July 1941. A
number of their relatives and friends were then deported to Siberia, accused
to be "Capitalists" or "Negative elements of society".
My parents: my late father, Berti (Berthold) and Sidi, married during that
time in Czernowitz, when there was almost no food to be obtained.
When the German army with their Rumanian collaborators re-conquered within
"Operation Barbarossa", they and all their remaining family members were
driven out of their homes to be put in the Czernowitz Ghetto, four families
in one room.
By a sheer miracle they were saved from being deported to Transnistria and
managed to stay in Czernowitz until the end of the war, or to be accurate -
until the "Second Russian Period", when the Red Army invaded again in March
1944.
Sidi Gross has written 4 books by now (please look her up on Google) and is
still active writing, volunteering and looking after her only son's family,
her 3 grand-children and her 2 year old great-grand daughter Tamar.
Sidi's sister, Berta Sporn, who is 4 years older, is also still with us,
living by herself in Tel-Aviv with her numerous cats. She has the same
story, and I know several others who can say they went through almost
similar "adventures".
For example, our relative, Sidi Kassner, who survived Siberia (she and her
late husband Willy where among those deportees) even contributed her story
to the Czernowitz.Ephes site. She lives in a home in Ramat-Aviv, just next
door to us, and is also full of vigor.
So you see, Hardy, these "hard-nut" czernowitzers are still here with us,
very active, independent people, who carry these memories with them without
bitterness or despair, still contributing to society and leading full and
happy lives.
See you "Oif Simches"! Nathan.
Nathan Gross - Architect & Town Planner
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