If one questions the locals, the denial comes first " Strangers we did
not know who did it".
That was the answer I got when visiting Pohorlauti where my
Grandmother & other family member were
murdered & thrown into the river.
Fred Weisinger
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Irving Osterer <irvosterer_at_rogers.com> wrote:
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> [Irv - Plain Text next time, please. Moderator B]
>
>
> Many thanks to Edgar for posting this terrific lecture by Dr.
> Geissbuehler. "Bloody July: Romania and the Holocaust in Summer 1941" is
> a very comprehensive piece --- that serves to clarify exactly what
> happened to our people in Bukowina and why it happened. I wish I could
> have been in Israel to attend the conference.
>
> I am hoping Geissbuehler's words will inspire people to do more research
> on the smaller Bukowina centers. I believe Father Desbois' group has
> done some work indentifying some unmarked mass grave sites there. There
> was recently a very good "60 minutes" television segment on the
> significant work his group is doing. He also confirms that many of these
> mass killings were public events and that locals now in their 80's can
> actually tell you where they were standing when shown pictures of the
> massacres in their villages and towns.
>
> In her book Basilic, the author Madeleine Kahn describes her return to
> Stanesti de Jos --- a town whose Jewish history has been completely
> erased, and how she took local officials to task on their distorted
> version of history.
>
> There are probably many more histories like this to be written - but I
> would recommend Kahn's book (currently only in French) to anyone with
> an interest in reading a first person account of what happened in 1941 -
> through the eyes of a Parisian child visiting her grandmother, and
> getting caught in the events. Her tale of survival against all odds is
> very moving.
>
>
> Irv Osterer
> Ottawa, Canada
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