Re: [Cz-L]"Arnold Daghani. Who is he?" by Miha Ahronovitz

Re-sending.

Edgar,

I am deeply moved by your words and I welcome to the Czernowitz people
determine to conserve the Jewish culture of a city with exceptional
people like Paul Celan and Arnold Daghani. I am sure that there many
more, not less valuable, who perished in miserable events, or simply did
not have the luck to become famous.

The story of Daghani stayed in my mind for years, and now I had to take
it out to the outside world. I tried in Israel in 1970 to reach Daghani,
but in pre-Internet era this was not an easy task. I want to thank Edgar
for noticing my blog.

I enjoyed reading Arthur Rindner's Stories at JewishGen, little pearls
that save the history and I was very happy to the photo of young
volunteers from Ukraine and Germany,not Jewish, who helped rescue the
Jewish past and conserve it for the future.

My sister's brother in law, Aurel Vainer, is the president of the Jewish
Federation of Romania (whatever was left out of it, from nearly one
million before the war to not even 10,000 today). He visited Atlanta,
Georgia and made a presentation about the History of Jews in Romania. He
included the usual concentration camps pictures and how people were
killed, as if Romania was Poland ot Hungary during the war. I influenced
a bit and I said the Jews in Romania, were saved because General
Antonescu (Romanian Doctator) relationship with Filderman, the then
president of Jewish Community from Romania who knew Antonescu from his
high school years in Iasi. Unfortunately, Antonescu drew an imaginary
line of the Jews he wanted to save, and this did not include
Transnistria. These were horrible crimes. Yet Arnold Daghani was saved
by escaping to Romania ruled by Antonescu, because in Moldavia,
Valachia, South Ardeal, Dobrogea, the Jews remained more or less intact.

There is a controversial book of Tesu Solomonovici, (who lives in
Israel) where he names the Romanian Holocaust "asymetric holocaust"

Watch this Romania TV program (in Romanian)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy1NZOkElSM

Daghani was much more than a victim of atrocities (my father was locked
up for 11 years in Communist Romania, after his death sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment, and then State of Israel paid for us to
be free. I will write a new blog.

I added a copy of the letter signed by Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem mayor,
that can not receive his art collection "because they do not have
space"!!! See Note 1 (added an hour ago) to my Daghani post

http://mirceavorona.blogspot.com/2012/05/arnold-daghani-who-is-he.html

Warm regards I did join the group. You do a phenomenal work of
conserving what we have best in Jewish culture and we will transmit to
the generations to come

Cheers,

Miha Ahronovitz

On 6/4/2012 3:25 AM, Edgar Hauster wrote:
> Czernowitzers...
>
> Most of you know Arnold Daghani and his oeuvre. Some of you, as for instance Arthur, even met Arnold Daghani during the long period of suffering in Transnistria (see below). The Arnold Daghani Collection at the University of Sussex with its around 6,000 works is the most substantial part of the University Library and - of course - Arnold Daghani is represented in "our" Czernowitz Art Gallery (see below).
>
> But who is Miha Ahronovitz?
>
> I came across Miha's story "Arnold Daghani. Who is he?", or - more precisely - Miha discovered the "Czernowitz Art Gallery" a few days ago. Miha met Arnold Daghani in Bucharest around 1955, who was at that time Miha's English tutor, and, as we learn from Miha's article, "the most expensive English tutor in Bucharest under the Stalin-style communist regime". What a superb story! I feel certain you'll like it, as much as I do. So please start reading at our Ehpes.com Blog
>
> http://ehpes.com/blog1/2012/06/04/arnold-daghani-who-is-he-by-miha-ahronovitz/
>
> and from there, continue reading at Miha Ahronovitz's Blog
>
> http://mirceavorona.blogspot.de/
>
> and you'll discover much more outstanding postings, as for instance "The American Refrigerator", an exemplary burlesque from post WW2-Romania. Miha, even if you are not related (yet) to Czernowitz and Bukovina, I think our Czernowitz-L Discussion Group (http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/) is the right place for you to be, at least since publishing your article on Arnold Daghani; I'm encouraging you to join us and thank you for your contribution!
>
> Additional Arnold Daghani links at:
>
> - University of Sussex: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/cgjs/daghani_catalogue.php
> - Czernowitz Art Gallery: http://czernowitzgallery.blogspot.de/
> - Arthur Rindner's Stories at JewishGen: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/transnistra1/tra001.html
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
>
>

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