Hi Lloyd! Yes ,Czernowitz was special.And I suggest if possible go and see
the place. There is a beautifully decorated shul built in 1926...untouched!
The Mayor of the town at the time was Traian Popovici, A Romanian non-Jew.
When ordered to deport all to Transnistria he told the government that he
could not run his town without the Jewish engineers,doctors etc...and was
allowed to issue 20000 "Popovici Permits" which helped people to stay.
Also,Czernowitz was Romania not Ukraine....so shootings at first..but not
the wholesale slaughter that went on under the Germans. So...many of us
survived...including me! Cornel
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[mailto:bounce-119497189-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd
Marksamer
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 6:33 PM
To: Hardy Breier
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Subject: Re: Czernowitz History questions
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
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