Dear Simona
Nice to know that you've joined our group. Though I don't know about your
family I was born in Czernowitz - and Bruce is right that you live
approximately in my "neighborhood." I'm a photographer who lives in Utica,
NY and you'd be welcome to visit should you be transiting through here at
any time. I plan to be in Cz a year from now to continue a photo work about
identity and roots that I began in the 1990s
Best wishes to you
Sylvia
Sylvia de Swaan
www.sylviadeswaan.com
http://sylviadeswaan.blogspot.com - Insight Out
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Bruce Reisch <bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu>wrote:
> Dear Simona,
>
> Thanks for joining our group! I'm sure if some of our members have
> memories of your family, they will be glad to pass them along. I've been
> working on a Czernowitz cemetery indexing project, and I'll be glad to
> help you with any lookups needed for burials in the cemetery. ~20,000
> tombstone photos have already been posted to JOWBR - the JewishGen Online
> Worldwide Burial Registry - where you can start your search.
>
> I'd also like to point out that, though our membership spans all
> continents except Antarctica, you really aren't so far from some of your
> North American fellow list members. I'm located in Geneva, NY, Sylvia
> DeSwaan in Utica, and then there are a number of us in Toronto and
> Montreal! If your travels take you through to the Finger Lakes area,
> please let me know and I'd be very happy to meet you.
>
> By the way, the Zimbler family is mentioned in Hugo Gold's book, History
> of the Jews in the Bukowina. Here, for instance, is the chapter on
> Sadagora:
>
> http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bukowinabook/buk2_098.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> Bruce Reisch
> Geneva, NY
>
> On 8/10/12 16:27, "Simona Sharoni" <simona.sharoni_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Greetings everyone,
> >
> >Just joined the list a few weeks ago. My father's family settled in
> >Czernowitz over 200 years ago. My father was born there in 1931 as Arthur
> >Zimbler (son of Miriam Goltz) and was on the first transport
> >to Transnistria in 1941. He had two older sisters: Lotti and Toni. One was
> >18 and ther other 22 in 1941. My gradfather was murdered by a Romanian
> >soldier just outside the camp in 1942. The rest of my father's nuclear
> >family survived but left for Romania immediately after the war. My father
> >met my mother in Brashov Romania and in 1963 immigrated to Israel and
> >became Avraham Sharoni. He passed away in 2004.
> >
> >I would appreciate any information about the family as well as any
> >memorable things those of you who are my father's generation remember from
> >1931-1941. I am currently working on a memoir that begins with the morning
> >of the first trasport from the Czernowitz ghetto to Transnistria. My
> >father
> >wrote a self published memori beginning with that morning but I would like
> >to provide a little bit more context.
> >
> >Also, we have very little information about the extended family: my
> >grandfather's (Zimbler) brothers and sisters and their families and we
> >know
> >the whereabouts of only 3 of my grandmother's sibilings but they were 14.
> >
> >Also, I would like to recommend a great resource, which has been very
> >useful for me: a book authored by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer titled
> >Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, published by
> >the University of California in 2010.
> >
> >I really appreciate this list.
> >
> >Warmly,
> >Simona
> >
> >--
> >Simona Sharoni, Ph.D
> >Professor of Gender & Women's Studies
> >Chair, Gender & Women's Studies Department
> >SUNY -- Plattsburgh
> >101 Broad Street
> >Plattsburgh, NY 12901-2681
> >Tel: 518-564-3026
> >Fax: 518-564-4226
> >Webpage: simonasharoni.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of
Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed
in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily
the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members
or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has
an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a
searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. As a result,
Messages sent to the list are available to the general public within days
of posting.
Please post in "Plain Text" if possible (help available at:
<http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PlainText.html>).
To remove your address from this e-list follow the directions at:
<http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/elist/howto/user/leave.cfm>
To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to:
<owner-Czernowitz-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Received on 2012-08-11 06:44:00
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 2012-10-18 23:02:47 PDT