Re: [Cz-L] Popovici

Here is an excerpt from Before Memories Fade, the memoirs of my late
mother Pearl Spiegel Fichman, related to the permits for specialists:
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After ten days of deportations, the Romanian administration changed
their plan. The town was paralyzed without the Jews. There were no
people to run the services after the destruction left by the Russians,
the Romanians had not returned yet in any numbers and without the local
Jews, the town was paralyzed. Besides, there were Romanian-Jewish
intermarriages and the affected families intervened with the government
in Bucharest. There may have been some intervention from abroad, but
that is not proven. As a result, the general issued a decree stopping
temporarily the "re-settlement" of the Jews. By that time three
quarters of the Jews had been deported to Transnistria.

There had to be guide lines concerning who was needed, who would be
allowed to stay. Since the Jewish community could not figure out what
was intended or who was needed, they started registration of
specialists. My former elementary school was within the Ghetto area and
registration took place there.

Everybody was desperate and lists were made for any kind of specialty.
I registered where ever they would accept my name. You did not have to
show a document, that would come up later. I was on a students list
(who needed students?), on a chemists list, nurse, anywhere. I put
Father’s name on all kinds of lists, Yuda was in the same situation,
although we had no contact at that time. He also registered on all
kinds of lists and he got a certificate to return home as "factory
foreman." The deportations stopped temporarily.
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The permit was not forthcoming until the last minute, when my mother
and her parents were already at the train station to go to Transnistria
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When I heard that the certificate was taken to the railroad I ran again
toward the station, without the paper. I arrived as the trains were
ready to leave. My parents were in a cattle car, some people, were
still drinking a last gulp of water at a pump. Almost unable to shout
any more, I ran from car to car, asking whether anybody had a
certificate for Spiegel. A man called from inside a cattle wagon, asked
me for the first name and gave me the certificate for Markus Spiegel. I
frantically ran and called my parents’ name and as the trains were
about to leave, I got them out. A few minutes later the train left and
the three of us trudged back to the Ghetto.
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The permit had only been issued for my mother's father, so the next day
. . .
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Next morning I went to the military where the permits were handled,
forced myself into the colonel’s office. I explained to him that my
Father had a wife, so he added "and wife"; then I said that I was the
daughter. He angrily turned to me and asked whether there were more
sons and daughters. I said: "No, I am the only daughter." Thus he added
"and one daughter."
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Though bribes were part of my mother's story at other points they do
not seem to have been used to secure her family's specialist permits .
. .

Eytan

Eytan Fichman
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
 
42 / 11 Tran Binh Trong,
Hai Phong, Viet Nam

-----Original Message-----
From: RUTH GOLD <glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>
To: Czernowitz-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Mon, Mar 19, 2012 10:03 pm
Subject: [Cz-L] Popovici

All the Jews, who were not "specialists" and not indispensable to the
city's infrastructure and still obtained a permit to stay, bribed the
screening commission members to be put on the Popovici list.
Obviously, this was the advantage of the rich.Unfortunately, my parents
did not have the money needed for said bribe.Best regards,RuthRuth
Glasberg Gold20191 E Country Club Dr, #1802Aventura, FL 33180 USA T
305.936.9494F 305.936.9992email:
glasgold_at_bellsouth.net
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