What a story !
Czernowitz' position made it a good escape point ,
Hardy
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Samuel del Campo's Rescue Operation in Czernowitz
. No. I was unaware of this saving operation but this reminded me of anothe=
r
similar operation (I do not know how many Polish Jews were involved( My
uncle had a curtain weaving factory on the Russische gasse, which was of
course nationalized and transferred to a Romanian owner, but my uncle was
the "meister" of the factory, so he obtained a lot of Popovici
authorizations for the previous workers who were thus saved from
Transnistria. He also included a lot of other "absolutely necessary" worker=
s
that he recruited from amongst friends and relatives. My father was 0ne of
them and he was in charge of the warehouse, with long troughs, in which
workers checked the long woven curtain cloth, cut out failed lengths, and
created bales of the good stuff.
I am not sure of the exact period - very likely in end of 1941 and begin of
1942 a number of Polish Jews escaped from Poland and reached Czernowitz, an=
d
were directed to temporary shelters until they could be sent "over the
border" to Romania proper (I suppose helped by some heavy bakshish to the
"shippers"). One of these shelters was the warehouse, and the escapees were
lying hidden in the troughs, under the curtains, throughout the day - the
workers were quite careful not to unveil them while checking the stuff. At
night they could get out into the warehouse (dark, of course) , eat and use
the facilities.
I recall that as an 8-9 year old I was bringing at noon a lot of food to my
father - that only quite a number of fathers could consume. It was of cours=
e
for the refugees, for the few days and - or rather nights, that they stayed
there. . Surprisingly or not there were no "tongues" amongst the workers,
although everyone knew the mortal danger to all if the situation were
discovered Several years later I met one of those escapees in Israel, and w=
e
happily recollected this period.
Mordecai
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