Re: [Cz-L] 70 Years from the Liberation of Transnistria Camps from IrisJune11_at_aol.com on 2014-03-20 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: <IrisJune11_at_aol.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:06:37 -0400 (EDT)
To: irenef_at_netvision.net.il, czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
Reply-To: IrisJune11_at_aol.com

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       What a touching story, Irene. Although I'm certain there are many
thousands like that, I wonder if anyone has done a movie on that.
        Thank you, as well as Sally, for sharing it.
                Iris

Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar
Raleigh, North Carolina

In a message dated 3/20/2014 5:31:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
irenef_at_netvision.net.il writes:

Shalom to All ,

Do you know who Mishu Wolf was ? Was he a Bukovinaer? See his story below.

The following information comes from my friend Paula. Her mother, Sally
Abramovici (nee Buium) donated the artifacts to Yad vaShem.
Here is the story , published on the commemorative on-line exhibition at
YadVashem :

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/exhibitions/bearing_witness/transnistria_misu
_wolf.asp

Translation ( with the help of Angelo Segal):

The story of a box containing a pendant created by Mishu Wolf - a Rybnista
prisoner, for Sally his girlfriend imprisoned in Vapniarka / Transnistria .

With increasing anti-Jewish activity in Romania before World War II Sally
Buium, born in 1918, joined the anti-fascist movement even though she
understood the danger involved.
In 1939, Sally at age 21, was arrested and imprisoned with a group of
young
Jews, accused of subversive anti-fascist activity punishable by one year in
prison.
After her release she was arrested again, this time she was send to Tirgu
Jiu, and from there in September 1942, was deported with a large group of
Jews accused of communist activities to Vapniarka camp.
During her term in Vapniarka Sally met Mishu Wolf and the two fell in love
and had hoped to start a family in a better future. However, Mishu and
other
prisoners were later sent to the Rybnista prison, and the two were
separated.

While in the Vapniarka camp, despite difficult conditions, the prisoners
received some degree of leeway. But the Rybnista was conducted as a prison
where the SS and Ukrainians were the jailers.
In early 1944, news came that the Russian army is approaching. The
echoes
reached even the Rybnista prisoners. During this period Mishu Wolf carved a
gift for his girlfriend - a pendant consisting of small wooden box engraved
with the name Sally, and within it, two carved objects . One medallion
shows a watch with the hands at five to twelve illustrating the nearing
of
liberation . But the hope expressed by Mishu turned out to be a false hope.
On the night of the 19th to March 20, 1944, the German decided to retreat
from Rybnista, and the prison guards killed all prisoners, including Mishu
Wolf.

With the evacuation of Vapniarka, Sally was moved to other camps and in
August 1944, with the fall of the Antonescu regime she was released. .
.Sally kept all her life these beloved little souvenirs.
In1945 Sally married Sandu Abramovich .

Captions for photos:

1.+3 .The Box containing a pendant created by Mishu Wolf in Revnitza a gift
for Sally when she was detained in Vapniarka
2. Sally after beeing liberated from Vapniarka
4. Medallion "Rybnitza" March 8th, 1944 and watch "5 minutes to 12"
5. Back of carved pendant signed Mishu
6. Front side of pendant: portrait of a prisoner
7.Sally Buium and Sandu Abramovici

Hebrew site -virtual exhibition - more artifacts from Transnistria:

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/exhibitions/bearing_witness/transnistria.asp

English site -virtual exhibition of artifacts from Transnistria ( only one
story):

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/bearing_witness/life_camps_frenke
l.asp

Regards,

Irene

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