Great story, dear Jim, and an excellent hint, dear Jerome! Thank you both f=
or sharing. Me too, I remember that Ina addressed a post to all of us in Ja=
nuary 2013 and - from the deeps of the Ehpes archives - here it is:
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz12/testfile2013-1/0402.html
Warmest wishes to all of you and - above all - Kudos, dear Ina!
Edgar Hauster
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> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] from the vaults: a story involving Poland, property, =
Kazakhstan, and Czernowitz
> To: jwald_at_hampshire.edu; jwald_at_hampshire.edu
> CC: czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu; ina.lancman_at_gmail.com
> From: romers_at_shaw.ca
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:43:53 -0700
>
> Jim... what an interesting story... adding to that, Ina is a member of
> this list and has been for quite some time. And thank you Jim for bringin=
g this to our attention.
>
> Congratulations Ina for your persistence and good fortune in this
> successful outcome!
>
> Best,
> jerome
>
> On 2015-10-22 16:33, Jim Wald wrote:
>> Naftali Herts Kon's Works Wrenched Out of Poland's Clutches
>> Paul BergerJuly 21, 2013
>>
>> On both occasions that the KGB arrested the Yiddish writer and poet
>> Naftali Herts Kon, it burned his writings. When Kon escaped from the
>> Soviet Union to Poland in 1959, he thought everything would be
>> different — but it wasn’t. When the Polish Communists arrested Kon i=
n
>> 1960, they simply confiscated his writings and refused to give them
>> back. Once more, Kon had lost hundreds of pages of poems and letters.
>>
>> Click to view a slideshow.
>>
>> Even after prosecutors dropped the trumped-up charges against Kon, a
>> Polish court twice refused to return his works. Kon immigrated to
>> Israel in 1965, bereft. “I remember him despairing over it,” Kon’s
>> daughter, Ina Lancman, 71, told the Forward recently. “He left Poland
>> without ever hoping to get [his papers] back.”
>>
>> Today, Kon’s papers are once again with his family. After a decade of
>> persistent questioning of Polish authorities and a two-year battle
>> through the Polish courts, they sit in 15 manila folders atop a dining
>> table in Lancman’s apartment in Queens. For the family, Lancman said,
>> “it’s a little bit of belated justice.”
>>
>> Tomasz Koncewicz, the Polish lawyer who represented Lancman in the
>> fight for her father’s papers, believes his victory may provide hope
>> for other Jewish families and institutions that have fought years-long
>> campaigns for the return of their collections from Poland.
>>
>> Koncewicz, a law professor at Gdansk University, said that although
>> Lancman’s case was unique, other families could use his arguments as a
>> starting point for building a strategy in their own restitution case.
>> “It might have huge ramifications,” he said.
>>
>> Wesley Fisher, a director of research at the Conference on Jewish
>> Material Claims Against Germany, said that Lancman’s victory is a coup
>> in Poland where belongings usually return only “with tremendous
>> difficulty and at great expense.”
>>
>> Lancman has short, white hair and the air of someone who does not give
>> in easily. She said that as a child in the “brainwashed” atmosphere =
of
>> the Soviet Union, she chafed at authority. “Maybe it was my father’s
>> genes,” she said, “because he was always very defiant against the
>> predominant way of doing things.”
>>
>> Lancman was born in Kazakhstan during World War II. After the war
>> ended, her parents returned to their home in Chernivtsi, a historic
>> town framed by the Carpathian Mountains in what is now Western
>> Ukraine. When she was 7 years old, her father was arrested as part of
>> a crackdown on the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, a wartime
>> organization that Stalin grew to distrust during the late 1940s.
>>
>> read the rest (includes audio):
>>
>> http://forward.com/news/180733/naftali-herts-kons-works-wrenched-out-of-=
polands-c/
>>
> [Jim Wald]
>
>
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