Dear Edgar:
Thanks very much for your usual, detailed reply. It clarifies the issue as =
only you can!
Best regards to you, your fellow-webmasters, and all the members of this wo=
nderful Discussion Group for a Happy and Healthy 2016.
Simon
> On Dec 22, 2015, at 6:21 AM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Simon,
>
> Due to a harsh romanization, implemented by the Romanian authorities, han=
d in hand with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, many - predominantly young - Jews=
from Bukovina left for Western European countries looking for new educatio=
nal and professional perspectives; my father Julius Hauster f. i. went to G=
renoble in France, his brother Maximilian, who perished in Auschwitz, went =
to Brussels in Belgium. Many of these expatriates, who subsequently lost th=
eir Romanian citizenship and usually didn’t get any protection agai=
nst Nazi persecutions by their host countries (see Belgium), were deported =
to and perished in Auschwitz and/or other concentration/extermination camps=
.
>
> But Auschwitz was not the „Final Solution“ for the Jews f=
rom Bukovina as part of Romania, but by a fraction of an inch the BELZEC EX=
TERMINAION CAMP could have been!
>
> The Jewish Virtual Library gets to the point: „According to the s=
tatistical table on the potential victims of the ‚Final Solutionâ=
€˜ introduced at the Wannsee Conference, 342,000 Romanian Jews were des=
tined for this end. The German embassy in Bucharest conducted an intensive =
propaganda campaign through its journal, Bukarester Tageblatt [August 8, 19=
42], which announced ‚an overall European solution to the Jewish pr=
oblem‘ and the deportation of Jews from Romania. On July 22, 1942, =
[Gustav] Richter [German official in charge for Jewish affairs in Romania] =
obtained Vice-Premier Mihai Antonescu’s agreement to begin the depo=
rtation of Jews to Poland [Belzec Extermination Camp] in September. However=
, as a result of the efforts of the clandestine Jewish leadership, foreign =
diplomatic pressure, and pressure by the papal nuncio, A. Cassulo, Ion Anto=
nescu canceled the agreement.“
>
> Read more at the FINAL REPORT of the International Commission on the Holo=
caust in Romania:
>
> http://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20080226-romania-commission-holocaust-history=
.pdf
>
> Although the chapter above (p. 75-81) is headlined "Romanian and German P=
lans to Eliminate the Jews from Regat and Southern Transylvania", the "Fina=
l Solution" as conceived by Adolf Eichmann and his aide Gustav Richter, inc=
luded the entire Romanian Jewry, i. e. the Jews from Bukovina too! As I men=
tioned before, by a fraction of an inch...?!
>
> I do hope these data will be useful to you (and others), dear Simon. Warm=
est wishes!
>
>
> Edgar Hauster <MacBookAir>
>
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