Re[2]: [Cz-L] Silence is golden

In data de Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:14:22 +0000
Bruce Reisch <bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu> scris-a:

> Hi Hardy,
>
> I have to agree with your recent note:
>
> "By the way I found that nothing makes more posts
> than an erroneous statement."
>
> So, if you don't mind, may I provide an important correction? Membership
> on the list now stands at 399! One of your friends could become
> subscriber 400! That means we have even more silent members. I too would
> welcome our "silent majority" to post something, . . . anything, about
> their connection to Bukovina - even a wink, as did Sharon, Iris and Ken.

Hi all,

I don't write often but I read most of the messages.

My father, Erich Dubowy, was a Czernowitzer. He passed away in 2007 at
the ripe age of 98. Hedwig Brenner knew him, I'm not sure about the
connection but my father was one of the guests at her wedding, many,
many many years go. And I was a guest at Hedwig's younger son's wedding,
some 30 years ago.

My dad left me a treasure of photos and written stuff, a family tree too.
Unfortunately, the written stuff is in German which is almost Greek to
me.

Years ago Bruce sent me a photo of my grandfather's tombstone in the
Jewish cemetery in Czernowitz. I myself have never been there and it is
not likely I will ever visit it or the city itself. My attachement is
more to a city that no longer exists, as it was described by my father
and by many of you here.

My paternal grandparents were first generation Czernowitzers, having
settled there after my grandfather's military service (KuK of course). I
believe he was offered a position as a low level clerk in the police
department in Czernowitz.

His salary was not enough to support a growing family so my grandmother
opened a hat parlour/shop on Herrengasse. She had a few workers and
could support the family. She would go to Viena every year to get the
latest models in fashion and had them made in her shop for the ladies of
the town.

http://family.webshots.com/photo/2754345410055336761DJjkOX

She had three daughters (Helene, Martha and Anna- Angie) and a son, my
father.

Helene married Edwin Taussig and stayed in Czernowitz. They had a son,
Hugo Taussig, who many years later would go to America and become a
psychiatrist in Providence, Rhode Island, together with his wife,
Marguerite Dorian, daughter of Emil Dorian the writer and doctor, better
know for his Diary , The Quality of Witness

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67278.Quality_of_Witness

Martha married a Polish engineer, "uncle Djunek" Katz- Karwowski. and
went to live in Poland. She had a daughter, Stella. During the war
mother and daughter were interned in the Vilna ghetto, father was
allowed to live outside, he was deemed to be a "necessary Jew" or
whatever the term was. One day, mother and daugher decided to get out and
they bluffed their way out of the ghetto somehow and lived in the
country disguised as Christians and hidden by a Polish family until the
end of the war.

Angie married a rich landowner's son, Leon Fischer and stayed in
Czernowitz. Actually, they lived at their property at Ispas.

She had a daughter, Fanny (Stephanie).

And my father went to Viena to study architecture, became an architect
and came back to Bucharest and stayed there.

Then the war came and they all tried to leave Czernowitz and couldn't.
Eventually, granma Etelka, Helene (a widow already) with little Hugo,
Leon with Angie and Fanny came to Bucharest were they managed to survive.

Daniel

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