Re: [Cz-L] Jewish WWI refugees in Bohemia

Referring to a traumatic event that was known in our family as "die
Flucht" - the Flight. During WW1 in year 1916 the Russians initiated an
attack against the eastern front of the
Austro-Hungarian lines known as the "Brusilov Offensive" . The Russian army
advanced, succeeded to penetrate the Austro -Hungarian defense lines and
conquered for a short period parts of Bukowina. The Bokowinian Jews had a
Primeval fear from Russians, therefore many of them gathered what belongings
they could pick-up, leaving behind every other property,and fled westwards.
My paternal Grandfather, Grandmother and their children fled from Czernowitz
to Pilsen, Boehmen - Bohemia. They came back after some months as the
Russian attack failed. Quite a number of those who fled returned after
years, and some stayed behind. We had family members in Bruen - Brno, and in
Vienna who didn't return.

 Yosef Eshet

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wald" <jwald_at_hampshire.edu>
To: "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 11:39 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Jewish WWI refugees in Bohemia

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> Hi all.
>
> To my total surprise (after Shemini Atzeret yizkor today, of all times),
> I came across this.
>
> To be sure, by that time (already 1913), my father's family had left the
> Bukovina and moved to Galicia (the other relatives stayed in Bukovina),
> but it is still part of the general picture of the fate of the
> Bukovinian Jews under the Habsburg Empire.
>
> Jim
>
> A groundbreaking new exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Prague uses
> testimony from the Visual History Archive to explore the
> little-known fates of Jewish refugees in Bohemia and Moravia during
> World War I.
>
> The exhibit, titled "The Orient in Bohemia? Jewish Refugees During
> the First World War," will be on display at the Jewish Museum in
> Prague <http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/aorient_v_cechach.htm> until
> February 2015. 2014 marks the centennial anniversary of the
> beginning of World War I.
>
> Included in the exhibit is USC Shoah Foundation testimony of Jewish
> Holocaust survivors Jir(ם Nezval and Max Wald -- the only
> audiovisual testimonies of these particular World War I refugees
> that researchers could find in the world. Wald and Nezval describe
> their families' experiences in Bohemia as refugees.
>
> The exhibit focuses on the first large group of refugees in modern
> history to arrive in the Bohemia region of Czechoslovakia. Hundreds
> of thousands of people fled or were evacuated from their homes in
> the World War I frontlines and arrived in the inner regions of the
> Habsburg monarchy, where they faced anti-Semitic campaigns and loss
> of rights.
>
> Through never-before-seen photographs, "The Orient in Bohemia?"
> illustrates the life of these refugees and refugee camps as well as
> the fascination locals had for Eastern European Jews and their
> different lifestyles and culture. Narrated excerpts from newspapers
> and other documents reveal the racial prejudices of the time and how
> the local population dealt with the refugees.
>
>
> http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2014/09/6356-testimony-featured-%93-orient-bohemia%94-exhibit-jewish-museum-prague
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