Re: [Cz-L]Czernowitz Jewish museum looks for donations to safe a unique archive

It seems to me that paying such a large sum of money for these documents
is very wrong. These documents were not acquired by their current owners
in a legal and proper manner, nor did it cost them anything to acquire them.
Now they are selling them for an exorbitant price.
It is almost blackmail.
I have a lot of my parents' and grandparent's documents,
going back to my grandfather's birth certificate in 1879.
I may give these to the museum, certainly I can give them copies
and it will not cost the museum anything.

Furthermore, if the current owners of the documents will not be able to
sell these documents to the museum, who else will want to buy them?

Mimi Quoting HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>:

> Should not the Rudich family asked for agreement ?
> It is after all their private documents .
> Hardy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jewish Museum Chernivtsi"
> <jm.chernivtsi_at_gmail.com>
> To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L]Czernowitz Jewish museum looks for donations to
> safe a unique archive
>
>
>> Dear Czernowitzers,
>>
>> We would like to clarify some information concerning the fundraising
>> initiative that has been launched by our museum. The museum indeed wants to
>> buy a collection of archive documents of Rudich family from Bukovina. The
>> price of the archive has been established by its nowadays owner, who lives
>> in Chernivtsi. It is already the outcome of our negotiations with the
>> owner, since at the beginning the price was even higher. In our opinion it
>> is an acceptable price for this amount of valuable documents which are in
>> good condition. The documents, photos which have been posted on our
>> website, are only a part of the much bigger archive we are talking about.
>> We believe that it is a unique discovery and it will be a pity if the
>> documents are sold separately, since in this case the archive as it is will
>> be lost. We understand that the financial situation in the world is not the
>> best one, but we do believe that with united efforts we will be able to
>> save this part of the Bukovinian Jewish heritage.
>>
>>
>> Jewish Museum Chernivtsi
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