Re: [Cz-L] Popovici

Dear Channa,

Now that you are no longer a member of 'the silent majority',
please send me your photo and I'll put you in the Photos of List Members
album on the Ehpes site:
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/

Scroll down on the lefthand menu on the home page to see them:

=Photos of List Members (album)
=The Bukovina Get-togethers Album V.1 V.2

It will be my pleasure.
Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna Kofner" <akofner_at_hotmail.com>
To: <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>; <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>;
<glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>; <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:43 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Popovici

Dear Landsmen
I know that lately I became a "silent majority" (that what school year does
to most teachers), but I am reading everything to make up for all the
stories and street names I refused to listened as a child and even as a
young adult. I was not familiar with the name of Popovici before I joined
this site. Growing up in Czernowitz my assumption was that more Jews were
saved in Czernowitz than in other places because you could bribe the
Rumanians. I did have relatives who survived Transnistria on my aunts and
uncle's side (the Schachters)and my "machateineste'" parents who lived at
that time in Khotin as well as friend never left Chernowitz (yes, those had
money before the was, but as a child you don't connect those thinks)
What I see (easy to see it from now and here) that it was a war and
everybody was trying to behave as human as possible, while trying to save
their families and helping as many people as they could, which was not an
easy nor a simple task. As for Popovici, he probably loved the money and did
not mind saving the Jews to start with. Schindler did what he did in the
beginning strictly for profit . It was later that he became human and
heroic. In the end he spend his fortune,while jeopardizing his freedom and
life, in order to save "his jews". BTW, Schindler was able to save 1200
people.
As our wise men say, "He who saves one life, saves a whole world".
Was Popovici a saint? probably not. Was he human? Definitely. Was money made
on Jews trying to survive and stay alive? Not the first time.
Finally, the important thing, a lot of Jews were saved. The tragedy of
it,not everybody.
Sorry, my recess is over
Shalom

Channa

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