Re: [Cz-L] Liebersohn family of 3, murdered in Radautz after arriving from Transnistria in 1945

Dear Gabriele,

I have made many hours of video-interviews with a close friend of
Sophie Liebersohn. Her friends name was Chaia Koffler and she is the
mother of Igo Koffler, the current president of the Jewish community
of Radautz.

Chaia told me that the Liebersohn family returned from Transnistria to
Radautz. In Radautz they discovered that fromer neighbours had taken
over all their property. But the Liebersohns managed to go back for a
few days to their house. Shortly after their arrival in Radautz their
neighbours came over and murdered the parents Rachel and Moses
Liebersohn in front of their daughter Sophies eyes. Afterwards they
raped Sophie Liebersohn and killed her last. That is how Chaia Koffler
told me this horrific story. This gruesome murder took part on the
17th of Mai in 1945 in Radautz. The Liebersohn's had also suffered in
Transnistria so much, but had survived the Shoah. This murder upon
arrival in Radautz is unspeakably disgusting.

If someone has more specific information or questions about the
Liebersohn's murder, please contact me.

The murder of the Liebersohn family is documented in our
photo/text-book "the jewish bucovina - traces" and also in my 2005
documentary movie "eine verschwundene welt".
We also tell this story in our educational programs about the Shoah in
Austria and Romania. We make these programs mostly with high school
students and so far more than 500 students have participated in our
program.
(The website your email referred to is the website of a high school in
Vienna. A 14-year old student wrote a summary of her classes visit of
our Bucovina exhibition and holocaust-education workshop.)

Regards,

Emil & Shani

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, E. & G. Weissmann <EGWeissmann_at_gmx.net> wrote:
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>
> Re. Mimi Taylor's comment on anti-Jewish actions after 1945-were they
> Dobrovolni?
> Gabriele
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> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: Liebersohn family of 3, murdered in Radautz after arriving
> from Transnistria in 1945
> Datum:
> Von:
> An:
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>
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>
>
> It appears that the mystery around the tombstone of the Liebersohn
> family of 3 at the Jewish Cemetery in Radautz, which I photographed some
> time ago, is solved.
>
> In any case, the somewhat ambiguous Romanian inscriptions on the
> tombstone "VICTIMELE TEROAREI 17 MAI 1945" and in Hebrew "MURDERED" as
> well as the date May 1945 (after the first survivors arrived from
> Transnistria) left little place for doubt about the anti-Semitic nature
> of the murder and that who built the tombstone feared to be too explicit
> in Romanian.
>
> Now I found a reliable source confirming that the Liebersohn family was
> murdered by anti-Semites:
>
> http://www.g19.at/index.php/aktivitaeten/archiv-aktivitaeten/280-zu-besuch-im-amerlinghaus
>
> amerlinghaus1
>
> ^Die Liebersohn Familie überlebte die Lager von Transnistrien, kehrte
> nach Radautz zurück und wurde kurz nach ihrer Ankunft von örtlichen
> Antisemiten ermordet. ^Friedhof Radautz, Rumänien 2009 (Shani bar on)
>
>
> Please let me know if you can publish this on the Radautz related
> websites, and if you have any additional information. If anyone of the
> recipients has more information, please mail it to me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Katz
>
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