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

By the same rationale they can offer the "Cinema Czernowitz" for sale:

 Big cinema, centrally , located , can be converted into Mall,
  skating rink or basket ball arena.
   May also be transformed into Temple (?)
Hardy

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From: <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "Jewish Museum Chernivtsi" <jm.chernivtsi_at_gmail.com>;
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L]Czernowitz Jewish museum looks for donations to safe
aunique 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

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