RE: [Cz-L] Mordkhe Schaecter

Hi! On my last trip I photographed a Glaubach grave and it is on Ehpes among my pics. Also,my friend Natalya Masliy if contacted with the details should be able to follow up your research. She would expect a fee but she is very reasonable,and also most reliable, but I suspect she might need some kind of authorisation from you. Her e-mail is nataschaenglisch_at_mail.ru note German spelling! And if you decide to contact her,give my regards! Cornel

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Subject: [Cz-L] Mordkhe Schaecter

Hello all,

My mother recently moved into an assisted living development in Yonkers, NY. One of her table mates in the dining room is a woman named Charlotte Schaecter. Recently, Charlotte showed my mother her husband's obituary from 2007,( telling her to be careful not to fold it!) I happened to be visiting at the time, and so read it and found out he was a renowned Yiddish scholar from Czernowitz.

I am assuming that many of you know of him, Morkhe Schaecter, and wonder if any of you knew him personally. There's an extensive listing about him on Wikipedia. Among other things I learned that many people in his family, including his wife( Wiki refers to her as Charna, so I don't know if she goes by Charlotte now or if my mother just heard her name wrong) are scholars, and Charlotte/Charna wrote a book together with her sister-in-law, Mordkhe's sister.

Among other interesting pieces of information was the fact that all 16 of their grandchildren are fluent in Yiddish.

If any of you would like to convey any message to Charna, let me know and I will be happy to do so. I did try to tell her about this group, but I am not sure she understood me. I will try again.

Additionally, while we were dining, another person visiting his mother overheard me mention Czernowitz, and told me that his family was also from the city!

My connection to Cz, for those who don't know, is that my grandmother, my mother's mother, and also my aunt, my mother's older sister, grew up in Czernowitz.The family was originally from Sadagora. My great grandparents are buried in the cemetery. The family name was Glaubach, my grandmother Regina, my aunt Klara. My grandparents left Klara behind in care of my great grandparents when they left for the U.S. in 1914. They were not able to return for her, and she didn't go to the U.S. until she was a teenager. That's the first time she met my mother and her three brothers.

I was in the first group of cemetery volunteers in 2008, and with the help of my dedicated volunteer friends was able to locate my gg parents' graves, the last day of our project. It involved hacking through a lot of brambles and stinging nettles, and a good deal of detective work. I will always be grateful, and especially to Maryna from Czernowitz who joined our group and then the following two years, and offered to keep my relatives' graves cleared.

 I also went to the archives, and with the help of a prof at the university and one of his students, found my family's records in the archives. It was an incredible moment, made more so when the German speaking student read that my great grandparents had been divorced. (When I came home, my cousin who knew the family history best said that was impossible. He has since died, so I may never know the truth. That cousins's son, my cousin Nick Martin, was one of the founders of this list, although he is no longer active.

If anyone knows how I might be able to obtain those records from afar I would be grateful. I wasn't able to make copies. I visited the archives on my very last day in CZ, taking the train that night back to Poland. Between finding the archives, finding the graves, and just living in the city for three weeks and working in the cemetery it was an altogether extraordinary experience.

 Mimi, should I add some pictures from 2008? Or weren't there some already, from Christian and some of the volunteers? I have lots, all of the photos from the group.

Hardy, you sure were a cute kid! You are lucky to have such wonderful photos.

And Hedvig, I promise to write more to you soon, now that my mom is settled into her new home. I think of you all the time, and have told many times the story of your hospitality to me and our little Cz. gathering! We sure packed a lot into my one day in Haifa!!

Joanna Liss
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