Re: [Cz-L] Moishe Altman question

Hi David,
Moishe Altman was a friend of my father, the Yiddish poet, Naftali Hertz Kon. I remember him and his wife visiting us often in Czernowitz/Chernovtsy. I used to call him uncle Misha. We lived very close to Folksgarten, and these visits often ended up with strolls there. This was after my father's release from the Gulag in 1956. Unfortunately, I don't remember much else.

I do, however, have one interesting piece of information about Altman, and it comes from a Polish secret police file from 1960, which I recently received on a CD from the Institute of National Memory In Warsaw. The Institute, similarly to the Gauck Authority in Germany, took over the communist-era secret police files. The files are available to the regime's victims or their kin. I will be glad to translate for you the bit about Altman.

I think I have a group photo of the Czernowitz Yiddish writers: Moishe Altman, Meir Haratz, Yosele Lerner, and one other person, whose name I can't recall at the moment, taken in the 70s, after we had left for Poland. They were all close friends of my dad. If you don't have this photo, I'll try to find it. I am also in touch with Haratz's daughter, who lives in Jerusalem. She might have some stories to tell.

I was surprised to learn from Altman's YIVO bio that he had never left Czernowitz... I was under the impression that he had made it to Israel.

Best,
Ina

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