[Cz-L] A Sunken Treasure of Czernowitz

Czernowitzers...

In April I reported on a sensational genealogical find in the Czernowitz Regional Archives, discovered by Eliezer Schaffer from Haifa and Dragos Olaru from Czernowitz:

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2013/04/a-sunken-treasure-of-czernowitz.html
http://ehpes.com/blog1/2013/04/09/a-sunken-treasure-of-czernowitz/

Well, this treasure, consisting of nearly all PRIMARY DATA to the censuses effected for the City of Czernowitz during the Austrian period for the years 1869/70, 1880/81, 1890/91 and some of them for the year 1900, of is still sunken in the archival vastness.

In addition, this treasure is - literally - very heavy. Just imagine, we are talking about 93 volumes at about 450-500 double pages each, i. e. in total about 83,700-93,000 scans to be effected! During my this year's journey to Bukovina I consulted with my local friends on this item and we came to the coclusion, that the only chance to recover this huge and important database, is to cooperate closely with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington:

http://www.ushmm.org/

The USHMM has an ongoing digitalization project with the Czernowitz Regional Archives and a local team, being on the payroll of the USHMM, is scanning full-time the Holocaust related documents for now already more than 18 months. It would be reasonable - and perhaps even affordable for the USHMM - to extend the running project by including "our" documents in their scope of performance.

In my/our opinion, this requires an "official" petition of our group to be drafted by our members, who are -linguistically and locally - much closer to Washington than I am and to be addressed to the decision makers of the USHMM.

It's for sure worth the effort!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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