RE: [Cz-L] The Board of the Czernowitz Jewish Community in 1935

Ruth...

Thank you so much for sharing this deeply touching testimony with us. Dr. Jacob Geller was a member of the Jewish National Academic "Verbindung" Zephirah in Czernowitz and I have posted their photo on our ehpes.com Blog in February 2010:

http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=850

You'll discover Dr. Jacob Geller's photo - among many other familiar Czernowitz personalities - at the fourth row, seventh photo from left. In addition, his niece Ester Goldenberg, submitted a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem:

http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=2003791&language=en

Thanks to our fellow member Dr. Simon Geissbühler, who published his new book "Blutiger Juli" on the mass murder in July on Jews in rural Northern Bukovina and Northern Bessarabia, we know much more on this frightening history:

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2013/02/new-books-czernowitz-mythos-persists.html
http://www.schoeningh.de/katalog/titel/978-3-506-77675-4.html

Dear Ruth, your contribution to our group is essential and priceless. Thank you so much!

Edgar Hauster • MacBook
Lent • The Netherlands

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> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:36:59 -0700
> From: glasgold_at_bellsouth.net
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The Board of the Czernowitz Jewish Community in 1935
> To: bconcept_at_hotmail.com
> CC: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>
> I found one familiar name.
>
> Dr. Jakob Geller a prominent Zionist figure (a distant family member) often
> visited his parents in the village of Milie where my grandfather's farm stood,
> and where we spent our idyllic summers.
>
> On July 1941 Mr. Geller and his daughter came to Milie and were caught in the
> most barbaric massacre of the entire Jewish population.
>
> One. surviving witness saw how the peasants forced him to watch the murder of
> his thirteen-year-old daughter whom thy cut to pieces with a saw on top of a
> pile of wood. Then they killed him the same way.
>
> See the testimony on pages 46-47in "Ruth's Journey" A Survivor's Memoir.
>
>
>
> Ruth Glasberg Gold

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