Traian Popovici

To what has been written about the Popovici authorizations and about
Popovici, I would like to add some of my own memories and known facts.
I do have my parents' and my Popovici authorization and will gladly send
a copy to anyone who wants it. It was issued on the 27 of November 1941.
To receive it, my father had to present his birth-certificate and prove that
he was a resident of the city during the last census. (it says so on the
authorization).

It is signed by Dr. Traian Popovici and by maj. Mihai Iliescu, who also
filled out the names of my father, his sister, my mother and mine.
I know from what my parents told me that authorizations were handed out in
Alphabetical order, one or two letters per day.
>From the fact that people who's names started with R or S received their
authorizations on Nov. 27, you can guess when the giving of authorizations
began and ended.

On the night of June 6 - 7, 1942 and again later that month, when Jews
who had Popovici authorizations, but not Calotescu authorizations, were
being rounded up and deported, my family and I hid and and were not found.
I was five years old at the time, but I remember both events quite clearly.
We eventually got the Calotescu permit.

I firmly believe that Traian Popovici was a decent, well intentioned and
courageous man. This is how he was regarded by my parents and their friends,
most members of this list and others who had known him personally.

I fully agree with Ervin Spinner:

> One of the greatest aspects of the Jewish culture is that there are no saints,
> only people who do the right thing much of the time.

Mimi

[Mimi's Popovici Authorisation is on our website at:
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/stories/mimi/ww2.html --j]

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