Re: [Cz-L] After we go - it's all about the past.

Yosi,
Your father was a very lucky and a very clever man. The Soviets did pay some
compensation to my father (most of the victims were too scared to apply for
it) but nothing could compensate for the death of my grandfather, Max Kraft,
who perished in one of the GULAG camps in Siberia in 1946.
You've mentioned Novoselitsa. My father told me that the only male survivor
of the 1941 N.K.V.D. "cleansing" was from Novoselitsa. That man, who
somehow was able to survive by escaping from the camp, came back to tell the
story of my grandfather's (and others') tragic end . Did you, by any freak
chance, hear anything about that man?
I know I am being unrealistic but I am trying to write a family story.

Serah

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From: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; "Miriam Taylor"
<mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] After we go - it's all about the past.

> Dear All
> I excuse myself in advance if somebody's feelings will get hurt. That
> isn't my intention. My intention is to state facts as I experienced them.
> First a remark: When I refer to Czernowitzers I refer to the Jews that
> lived there and in Bukowina before and during WW2.
> Fact 1 (very important): The Red Army of the Soviet regime saved my and
> my parents lives by driving away the Nazis from Transnistria, and finally
> by defeating them sacrificing on the way more than a million soldiers.
> Fact 2: All this could have been (at least partially) prevented wouldn't
> have the Soviet regime signed with the Nazis the "Molotv-Riebentrop" pact
> before WW2 started dividing among themselves a part Eastern Europe.
> Fact 3: As a result of that the Soviets got rule over Northern Bukowina
> (among others) in 1940.
> Fact 4: One of their first actions during registration of locals, was
> the classification of those residents suspected of being potential enemies
> to the values ​​of the Bolshevik Revolution by registering "article 39"
> in their ID cards, and after that gathering them and their families up and
> deporting them to Siberia. The majority of the Deportees were Jews so you
> can say that the deportation of the Czernowitzer Jews started even before
> the Nazi occupation. Not to mention the men recruited on the Soviets
> retreat in 1941.
> Fact 5:(my private story): My father held an executive position in a
> firm located in Novoselitsa. For some reason he got too the article 39 in
> his ID card and after being warned we went into hiding. To make a long
> story short when we returned from Transnistria my father was appointed
> manager of the plant where he worked before and everything seemed fine.
> Till one midnight at the end of 1944 there was a knock on the door and he
> was taken away by the EN.KA.VE.DE. It took a lot of effort and bribe to
> release him for 24 hours and we fled over the border to Romania, and
> eventually to Israel with a stop in Cyprus.
> Fact 6: Till I saw The film "Frau Zuckerman und Her Zwilling" I
> wasn't aware of any Czernowitzers that stayed behind, and I'm still
> puzzled every time I hear about another one.
> Fact 7: I must say this is the first time I hear somebody being
> compensated for their property by the Soviets. Not only did they
> confiscate any property you had, they also put a "Polkownik" (Colonel) in
> the 3 room apartment where we lived. There was no compensation for the
> Plant that belonged to a British firm . Anybody to admit that he was owner
> of property was suspected as a "Burjuy" and registered under "article 39".
> As far as I know the Soviets also erased the old Jewish cemetery
> Czernowitz.
> Yosef Eshet
>

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