Very good answers, Hardy. Thank you.
What I don't understand is why some Cz Jews perished in the Holocaust while
others were permitted to live there normally??
Who decided who was to live and who was to die?
Was it a matter of luck? How important they were? Who they knew? Who they
paid off?
I haven't heard of other Nazi occupied cities where so many Jews lived
safely, except maybe Copenhagen.
So Czernowitz was always special and did not suffer as badly as the rest
of conquered Europe. But most Jews chose not to stay there after the War.
The Soviets were not that much better than the Nazis and their
collaborators.
Lloyd
On Friday, July 31, 2015, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> Lloyd, very good questions .not so good answers:
> The Soviets werecommies and every shopkeeper was a capitalist and so sent
> to
> Siberia.
> Most survived and returned to Cz after many years with new families.
> The Rumanians did some massacres in the first days of occupation.
> There was also a Gestapo unit station in town and they also shot some
> Jews on the streets. They also checked if the deportation went according to
> plan.
> The deported Jews returned from Transnistria after a Prut checkpoint
> filtering
> Out non Cz jews .
> After all surviving jews came back they found that life in the Soviet
> paradise
> Was not for them. At the same time Soviet rulers thought that they would be
> better off without us.
> They also needed our houses and did not consider the cultural conyribution
> The German Jews could make so were repatriated to a land nobody considered
> his fatherland.
> To look for lands where the grass was greener and air better,
> Some stayed in Cz- many -and some in Rumania.
> This an overview and needs correction.
>
>
> Hardy
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