Re: [Cz-L] Who knows Dr. Albert Twers?

Hi Edgar,
Thanks for putting this very interesting article of Florence about Albert
Twers on Ehpes Czernowitz...
There were many officers or soldiers, also German and Italian, who brought
letters and money from Bucarest and Czernowitz to Moghile
and to the camps over the Bug...
Leander Rosengarten, in his book "Gedenke, was Dir die Amalekiter taten"
(Remember what the Amalekits had done to you, , Moses, Ch.25,17) described
how German officers brought money from his parents in Czernowiz to his
brother Ing.Heinz Rosengarten and his wife Anny, in the camp Mihailovka,
than Terrassivka over the Bug, The German Officer Elsaesser, brought 100 kg.
Salami from the Polish owner Factory Podzudek and furs and medicaments from
Czernowitz to the camp over the Bug...After 7 days, all prisoners were
murdered when the Todd Organisation finished their work...
Shabbat Shalom
Hedwig

-----Original Message-----
From: Edgar Hauster
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 10:33 AM
To: Czernowitz Discussion Group
Cc: Florence Heymann
Subject: [Cz-L] Who knows Dr. Albert Twers?

Czernowitzers...

I'm coming back to the monumental and multilingual opus "Black Milk",
thoroughly edited by Dr. Benjamin Grilj

http://ehpes.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Flyer_eng.jpg

and would like to state the following additional question: Who knows Dr.
Albert Twers?

>From Florence Heymann's article "'Bottles in the Sea': Letters of Deported
Jews in Moghilev (Transnistria), November-December 1941", out of "Local
History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust, edited by Valentina
Glajar and Jeanine Teodorescu, p. 77, chapter IV, we learn as follows:

"[...] In several letters, a trustworthy person capable of transmitting mail
was mentioned. His name, Twers, often cropped up: "Dr. Albert Twers is here.
I must take advantage of the opportunity to forward to you some lines“
(Correspondence, 33). "The deliverer of this letter is an acquaintance of
Radautz, the lawyer Twers“ (Correspondence, 40). "According to the
information of the attorney Albert Twers, all the pensioners will return
soon to their home“ (Correspondence, 94). "On the way to the lawyer Twers, I
met him in the street“ (Correspondence, 107). In Jean Ancel’s book,
Transnistria 1941-1942, there are two index entries for "Twers“. On pages
584-585, document number 315, dated January 3, 1942, comes from the
administration that Dr. Albert Twers, lawyer, domiciled in Radauti,
transported letters from Moghilev to families remaining in Czernowitz and
Radauti. He was caught with 139 letters and notes from Jewish deportees
intended for their parents in Romania, which violated the instruction
prohibiting such correspondences. [24] His apartment was searched. The note
signed by Emil Velciu, lieutenant colonel magistrate, reports:

'The lawyer Twers Albert, of German ethnic origin, works in the firm of
import-export "Heinz Hellman“ from Bucharest, Calea Victoriei, 208. In this
capacity, on 12 December 1941, he went with the director of the firm to
Moghilev-Transnistria, to study the possibility of opening a branch in
Transnistria. Many Jews of Moghilev asked him to take letters and to
transmit them to people in Radauti or Cernauti ... The investigator could
not establish if he received money for this service; it follows that this
mode of correspondence, which is practiced in this area, contravenes thus
the measures of the postal laws in force, the measures referring to the
mandatory censorship of such correspondence.'

Now we can answer most questions we have asked in the beginning: why these
letters were gathered in a file, where the replies were, and why all the
messages dated from the same weeks-, but a mystery remains: What had pushed
Albert Twers, a German, to put himself at risk and assist the deportees?
Mercy? Philosemitism? Interest?

The second document, number 616, dated April 14, 1942, and published by Jean
Ancel (2003, 709), answers this question. [25] Twers’s father-in-law,
Naftali Alpern, was a Jew. Alpern had been deported from Czernowitz. Twers
tried to obtain his release, explaining the journeys to Moghilev and
Shargorod and his contacts with the Jewish community. It seems that he
succeeded in his quest. Indeed, a telegram from Alexianu, the civil governor
of Transnistria, instructed the prefect of Moghilev to release Naftali
Alpern and his wife, at the request of Antonesu himself. The justification
for the release was the fact that Alpern was a retired Romanian civil
servant."

Back to you, dear fellow members and to the collective memory of our
discussion group!

P.S. to Florence Heymann: Dear Folrence, would you agree on publishing your
most interesting article on Ehpes too?

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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