Re: [Cz-L]The Consul of Chile managed to save Jews from deportation to Transnistria ?

 In the thirties of the previous century the Latino-American countries had a
lenient immigration policy which attracted many of the Jews in northern
Bukovina. Usually the practice was that if a member of a community arrived
to one of the countries (Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela ..etc.) others
would follow. I know that Peru attracted many people from Novoselitsa, and
Chile many Chernowitzers. My father had 5 cousins from the Hebel family.
They applied, started to get Visas, two of them succeeded to get to Chile.
All this stopped when the Russians entered in 1940 most of them were
deported to Transnistria when the Romanians returned. Their Visas had no
effect.
 Yosef Eshet

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Abraham Kogan" <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>
Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; "'Efraim Zadoff'" <zadoff_at_zahav.net.il>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L]The Consul of Chile managed to save Jews from deportation
to Transnistria ?

>I am not sure whether the Chilean Consul helped any Czernowitz Jews
> avoid deportation to Transnistria. But in case other actions
> of the Chilean Consul during that general period are of interest;
> In 1940, before the Russians took over the Bukovina,
> my parents applied for a visa to go to Chile and were granted one.
> Chile was one of the few countries which were granting visas
> to European Jews.
> At that time there was no Chilean Consul in Czernowitz.
>
> I know that I read somewhere, that there were in Czernowitz
> Polish Jews who had visas to immigrate to Chile and that their fate
> was debated by the Romanian authorities, but I do not remember
> whether they were deported to Transnistria or not.
>
> Mimi
> On Nov 2, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Abraham Kogan wrote:
>
>> Hi, Czernowitzer friends,
>>
>> I got today an e-mail message from Mr. Zadoff, a historian from the
>> Hebrew
>> University of Jerusalem, who is interested in information regarding the
>> help
>> provided by the Consul of Chile to avoid deportation to Transnistria. I
>> understand that during the Holocaust Chile also represented the
>> interests of
>> Poland. Does anybody among our List members know anything about that ?
>>
>> Best, Abraham K.
>>
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