RE: [Cz-L] Adolph Herschmann, the chief of the ghetto

Iosif...

Thank you for sharing this excellent article with us. That's a first class opportunity to draw your attention to Arno Lustiger's last book

"9096 Leben. Der unbekannte Judenretter Berthold Storfer."
[9096 Lives. Berthold Storfer, the Unknown Savior of Jews.]

reviewed by the famous German daily newspaper "Die Welt":

http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/literatur/article106379804/Sein-letzter-Text.html

Berthold Storfer was born in Czernowitz on 16.12.1880. Thanks to Gabriele, we learned about the upcoming publication as early as February 2011:

http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz12/testfile2011-1/0808.html

Best wishes to all of you!


Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands



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> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 00:59:24 -0400
> Subject: [Cz-L] Adolph Herschmann, the chief of the ghetto
> From: iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>
> A very interesting research paper by Vadim Altskan, a senior scientist
> at the US Holocaust Museum, was published in the last issue of the
> journal "Holocaust Genocide Studies". The paper focuses on the fate of
> Adolph Herschmann, a Czernowitz lawyer, who was deported to Zhmerinka
> ghetto in Transnistria in October 1941 and who became a member and
> later the Chair of the Jewish Council in the ghetto. When the ghetto
> was liberated by the Red Army in 1944, Herschmann was arrested by the
> Soviet authorities on the charges of collaboration with the enemy. He
> pleaded innocent, claiming that all his actions were aimed at saving
> as many Jews as possible, however he was tried by a military tribunal
> and sentenced to death.
>
> The paper describes in detail Herschmann's activities in Zhmerinka and
> analyzes moral and other ambiguities faced by the members of Jewish
> self-administration, who in many cases did try to save their fellow
> Jews, at the same time doing the bidding of their Romanian or German
> masters.
>
> Herschmann was born in 1895 in Ostritz, graduated from a gymnasium in
> Czernowitz in 1914 and enrolled into a medical school in Vienna. In
> 1915 was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and by the end of the
> war became a first lieutenant. In 1922 graduated from the law school in
> Czernowitz and started a successful private practice. In July 1941 he
> was arrested by the Romanians for bribing the officials, when he tried
> to save his cousin, Gotlieb Markus, from imprisonment, but instead
> went to prison himself. His wife, Dora Rosenbaum, and daughter Donia
> survived the ghetto and managed to leave for Romania and then Israel
> after the war.
>
> Reference: Vadim Altskan, On the Other Side of the River: Dr. Adolph
> Herschmann and the Zhmerinka Ghetto, 1941–1944 / Holocaust Genocide
> Studies (Spring 2012) 26(1): 2-28 doi:10.1093/hgs/dcs010.
> http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/2.abstract
>
>
> Iosif
>
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