Czernowitzers...
Jewgenija Finkel's and Markus Winkler's much-cited book "Juden aus Czernowi=
tz" [Jews from Czernowitz]
http://ehpes.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/51TPVCTE98L.jpg
is reporting on Grzegosz Simonowicz (p. 113/114) as "Der Czernowitzer Walle=
nberg" [The Czernowitzer Wallenberg]. During the interwar period the Polish=
lawyer Grzegosz Simonowicz lived together with his wife Sofia and their tw=
o sons Zbigniew and Kasimir on Herrengasse 23. Grzegosz run the Chilean Con=
sulate in Czernowitz on behalf of the Chilean Embassy in Bucharest.
>From a testimony by the former Czernitzer Rabbi Meschulem Rath, dated April=
29, 1943 we learn, that Grzegosz Simonowicz rescued about 800 Polish Jews =
from deportation to Transnistria and in addition assisted Czernowitzer Jews=
in many different regards and saved the life of many of them. After the fo=
rced liquidation of the Chilean Consulate in Czernowitz and the dismissal o=
f Grzegosz Simonowicz, they emigrated to Toronto/Canada, where he deceased =
36 years later in September 1980.
This touching story on "The Czernowitzer Wallenberg" is linked to Jorge Sch=
indler's research on the Chilean diplomat Samuel del Campo, subject of one =
of our threads earlier this year. Does anybody out there have any reminisce=
nce on Grzegosz Simonowicz or hint to Grzegosz's family and/or descendants?
Edgar Hauster <MacBookAir>
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