RE: [Cz-L] Professor Samuel Flor

From: Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:25:02 +0100
To: Yosef Eshet <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
Reply-To: Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>


Yosef...

Thank you very much for your remark. In order to integrate it into the hist=
orical context of summer 1942, let me quote a paragraph from Svitlana Frunc=
hak's dissertation "THE MAKING OF SOVIET CHERNIVTSI" (to be released as "Bo=
ok of the Month, January 2016 at our Czernowitz Book Corner):

"The chaos that arose around authorizations for exemption from deportations=
 also frustrated Romanian central authorities who were against them in the =
first place. Later in the fall of 1941, Calotescu organized a special commi=
ssion to investigate the process of exemptions. As a result, a number of au=
thorizations were annulled and their holders deported. After the fall commi=
ssion, a new set of authorizations to stay in the city (around 5,000) was s=
igned by Popovici. In June of 1942, Popovici was fired from the mayor’s p=
osition and the entire second wave of authorizations (the so-called “Popo=
vici’s authorizations”), were annulled by the Romanian government. The =
deportations resumed, and, according to Romanian statistics, 4,790 Jews wer=
e sent to Transnistria between June and September of 1942, and many more la=
ter on during the war. Vladimir Solonari estimates that in February 1942 th=
ere were still more than 21,000 Jews in Chernivtsi; in the summer of 1942 w=
hen deportation resumed, 11,000 Jews were deported from the city. Chernivts=
i became a place of survival for more than 800 Polish Jews who had fled Pol=
and at the beginning of the German occupation in 1939 and chose to go to Ch=
ernivtsi, whether because they had relatives in the city or simply because =
they knew about the size and influence of the local Jewish community. A con=
sul of Chile in Chernivtsi, Degozh Shymanovich, saved many Jews by issuing =
Chilean passports to them and assisting in their emigration until his activ=
ity was uncovered and the consulate liquidated by Romanian authorities."


Edgar Hauster <MacBookAir>


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> From: eshet1_at_netvision.net.il
> To: mariontau_at_web.de; bconcept_at_hotmail.com; czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: RE: [Cz-L] Professor Samuel Flor
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:43:15 +0200
>
> I would like to mention that almost 100% of the people deported to the
> Cariera were people with Popovici authorizations that were deleted by
> Calutesu.
> Yosef Eshet
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marion Tauschwitz" <mariontau_at_web.de>
> To: <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>; <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:19 AM
> Subject: Aw: RE: [Cz-L] Professor Samuel Flor
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Samuel Flohr was imprisoned in Cariera de piatra at the same time as Selm=
a
> Merbaum, Alfred Kittner and Isaak Weißglas' family. Samuel Flohr had no=
t
> taken his violin with him but had it hidden in the catholic church in
> Czernowitz. Theodor Weißglas had taken his instrument with him. After s=
ome
> weeks the Flohr family was taken to Tulcyn and there Samuel Flohr had to
> play the violin for the officers' amusement on Sunday evenings . So a
> Lieutenant of Carriera de piatra "asked" Theodor to entrust Samuel Flohr =
his
> violin so that he could give performances in Tulcyn. What the young Wei=
ßglas
> did. When on 18 August 1942 the Nazis selected more than 1000 prisoners f=
rom
> Cariera to send them to forced labour camps east of the bug, what meant
> beeing sentenced to death, the Romanian lieutenant saved the Weißglas f=
amily
> by hiding them in one of the barracks apart because of Theodor having len=
d
> his violin to Flohr some weeks ago.
> I learned about this episode while doing research for my book on Selma.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marion
>
> www.marion-tauschwitz.de
>
> Sitzbuchweg 43
> 69118 Heidelberg
> 0049 6221/80 54 37
>
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