RE: History - [Cz-L]Trajan Popovich success to stop deportation to Transnistria

Maurice...

Please check Dennis Deletant's book "Hitler's Forgotten Ally - Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940-1944"

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2014/03/hitlers-forgotten-ally-ion-antonescu.html

which is available for - F R E E ! - download at

http://www.fcsteaua.ro/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5009

and read f. i. on page 123/124:

"The initial tasks carried out by the CJO [Central Jewish Office] were statistical surveys, the mobilization of Jewish forced labour for the army, the mandatory collection of money and materials for various state institutions, and provision of welfare for Jews. On 20 August 1942, Lecca told Antonescu of his proposal that the CJO collect the sum of 1.2 billion lei from the 16,000 Jews who had been kept on in their jobs through ‘individual dispensations’, which they had ‘purchased’ from the Romanianization inspectors. The money would allegedly be used to help the families of those who were performing community labour. After government scrutiny of the scheme, the sum proposed was increased to two billion lei [about $ 3,500,000.00], half of which was to be collected immediately and half by the end of the year. In the event, according to Lecca, little more than half the sum was raised, of which 400 million lei was handed over to the Patronage Council, a charitable organization for social works headed by Antonescu’s wife, Maria. Further government levies on the Jews continued. On 11 May 1943, Lecca informed the CJO that the government bearing in mind that, while Romanian soldiers are sacrificing themselves at the front, the great majority of the Jewish population continues to Antonescu and the Jews 123 enjoy the freedom to conduct trade and to live sheltered from the dangers of war, has resolved that this population should contribute the sum of four billion lei to the financial needs of the country.
Half the sum was backdated for payment for 1942; the other half represented the contribution for 1943. Failure to pay the levy established by the commissions due to be established by the government would result in deportation to Transnistria. Filderman protested vigorously to Antonescu about the amount of money expected from the Jewish community and the Marshal, exasperated, gave the order for Filderman’s deportation, despite the latter’s poor health. The order was carried out 30 May when the Jewish leader was taken to Moghilev. He remained there for two months before pressure from Queen Helen, the papal nuncio, Andrea Cassulo, the International Commission of the Red Cross, Iuliu Maniu, and leading members of the Liberal Party led Antonescu to allow Filderman’s return to Bucharest in August."

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> Subject: History - [Cz-L]Trajan Popovich success to stop deportation to Transnistria
> From: linkerm_at_gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 12:18:58 +1000
> To: czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
>
> Hi
> I have researched the history and am amazed that he could get away without the Nazi Germans (SS) or Rumanian stopping him or even eliminating (killing) him
> I read Trajan's story and other documents.
> I believe that after granting permission to stay in Czernowitz the proper were allowed to leave the ghetto and return to their homes they left when the ghetto was created.
> My older sister claims that the Rumanian government got a lot of money - from whom?
>
> Any information on this matter will be appreciated
>
> Sent from my iPad
> Preferred email address linkerm_at_ieee.org
> Maurice Linker
> Tel/fax +61293631399 Mob 0410808599
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