Re: [Cz-L] Romania, Czernowitz and Jews

Hi Cornel,

Thanks mostly to Jerome Silverbush and his continuing efforts, this book
is almost entirely available in English via the JewishGen Yizkor Book
website:

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bukowinabook/bukowina.html

I think you've seen it before:
Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina
Olamenu publisher
Hugo Gold, ed.
Volume 1 1958
Volume 2 1962

Bruce

On 3/25/12 5:26, "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:

>
>Harry...does this book exist in English?? C ornel
>
>
>
>From: bounce-43780670-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
>[mailto:bounce-43780670-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
>HJarvis16_at_aol.com
>Sent: 24 March 2012 21:48
>To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
>Subject: [Cz-L] Romania, Czernowitz and Jews
>
>
>
>As one of the first to return to his home town in 1987 I prefaced my
>account (see: http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/stories/jarvis/img045c.pdf)
>with my translation of the moving Prologue from a book called
>'The History of the Jews of Czernowitz' - Olamenu, Tel Aviv, 1962.
>
>This Prologue gives voice to my feelings of how the Jews suffered at the
>hands of the Roumanians
>
>"Once upon a time,long before the Hitler era,yet still within our
>lifetime,the Jews of Czernowitz firmly believed that this town which they
>loved was their home. Even the treacherous behaviour of the then
>Roumanian
>Government could not mar the deeply rooted attachment they felt for the
>town.
>It was not until the outbreak of WW2 that disillusionment ultimately came.
>
>Whilst so called Christian friends came to visit the ghetto in order to
>trade money and valuables with feigned sympathy and empty promises; while
>the
>expulsion of the Jews was celebrated with a bunting display on the town
>hall; while the mob robbed and sneered and the authorities declared open
>season
>for Jews; while the Roumanian police sold them to the peasants free to
>murder and rob the corpses; while in the death marches to the camps in
>Transnistria, men,women and children died agonisingly of hunger,
>frost and torture; with the burning of the Temple and the sight of Jews
>being killed with such fervour; it was then that their last illusions
>were
>finally shattered. The Jews here had no home.
>
>The few that escaped this hell and those who left the town before this
>catastrophe were real human beings deeply attached to the loving memories
>of their youth. All men hold dear the town where, under the loving care
>of
>devoted parents, they ultimately matured.. These attachments have been
>severed forever and only profound grief remains.
>
>This book is dedicated to the Jews of Czernowitz scattered all over the
>world
>who cannot forget their town".
>
>
>Harry Jarivs

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