Re: [Cz-L] Germans of Czernowitz

To all
I would like to add a similar story. As the German / Roumanian troops
occupied Czernowitz
very few people moved outside their homes with all the murder & mayhem
happening. We were
locked in our homes in fear for our lives ,you dare not breathe. Suddenly a
German open sedan
stopped in front of our home an officer came and knocked at the door ,with
fear in his heart my father opened the door. The officer called out : Herr
Weisinger koennen sie mich nicht ? ( Mr. Weisnger don't
you recognise me ? ) As it turned out, that officer worked for my father in
Leipzig, germany , where my father used to purchase furs being in the fur
trade. Once mutual recognition took place ,he ordered one of his man to
bring in a sack of food & bread. He assured my father as long as his unit
is in Czernowitz
we will be safe. You never know as some unexpected things happen,
unquestionable reason.
Fred. Weisinger

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:50 AM, cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
wrote:

> This story brilliantly shows why being a list member is such a rewarding
> thing....you get to hear about history that you would otherwise never
> know!!!!! Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-116108008-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-116108008-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Irene
> Fishler
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 9:55 AM
> To: 'yosi-jerry'; 'CZERNOWITZ-L'
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Germans of Czernowitz
>
> Dear Yosi,
>
> Thank you so much for this story !
>
> For now we have a few -very few- similar stories in our "collection".
>
> As you said: Everybody can make his own conclusion about Human behavior.
>
> Best wishes,
> Irene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-116080968-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-116080968-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of yosi-jerry
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:02 AM
> To: HARDY BREIER; cornel fleming; 'CZERNOWITZ-L'
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Germans of Czernowitz
>
> I'm not sure I told this story before. Anyway. When we were in Tulchin
> Ghetto in Transnistria my father was charged for communicating with his
> family back home, and we were transferred at the end of 1943 to Tiraspol
> Ghetto were my father was meant to be tried for this offence. All this
> under
> Romanian Jurisdiction. Tiraspol was also a strategic supply center to the
> German forces at the front. Which means that Germans were actually the ones
> who controlled Tiraspol. A day or two after our arrival, when father was
> standing at the gate of the Ghetto a German car stopped near the gate, and
> the German Major in the car motioned to my father to come to the car - now
> I
> suppose some of you know that in Transnisria to be transferred from the
> Romanians to the Germans meant almost 100% extermination - so my father
> seeing this, was very frightened and didn't move. Then the German Major
> called out " Wolf, what's the matter with you don't you remember me? I'm
> ...
>
> (I forgot his name)". It turned out that this German officer belonged to a
> German family from Czernowitz. He and my father were classmates at
> high-school, and used to meet occasionally before the war. To make a long
> story short. This officer needed the professional skills of my father. He
> arranged for our family to be moved out of the Ghetto. At the request of my
> father he arranged for some people from various locations in Transnistria
> to
> be transferred to Tiraspol in order to help with the task of ...sorting
> eggs. When the Soviet army approached Tiraspol he arranged for our family
> to
> be put on a train of the retreating Romanian Army to Czernowitz. The Soviet
> Army conquered Czernowitz a few days after our arrival. This German at that
> time was a benefactor to our family and a few others. The fact is he and
> some other I know about joined the Nazi Army. Everybody can make his own
> conclusion about Human behavior.
> Yosef Eshet
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