RE: [Cz-L] Grzegosz Simonowicz - The Czernowitzer Wallenberg

From: Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:18:46 +0100
To: Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>, Czernowitz Discussion Group <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-To: Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>


Hardy...

"they emigrated to Toronto/Canada", they = Grzegosz Simonowicz, his wife =
Sofia and their two sons Zbigniew and Kasimir;

"he deceased 36 years later in September 1980", he = Grzegosz Simonowicz.


Edgar Hauster <MacBookAir>


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> From: hardy3_at_bezeqint.net
> To: bconcept_at_hotmail.com; czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
> CC: winklerma_at_gmx.de; jschindler_at_minrel.gov.cl; sbenders_at_netline.cl
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Grzegosz Simonowicz - The Czernowitzer Wallenberg
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:18:15 +0200
>
> From E mai
> " they emigrated to Toronto/Canada, where he deceased 36 years later in
> September 1980"
> Who emigrated to Toronto ?
>
>
> Hardy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-119990597-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-119990597-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Edgar
> Hauster
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 12:02 PM
> To: Czernowitz Discussion Group
> Cc: Markus Winkler; jschindler_at_minrel.gov.cl; Sally Bendersky
> Subject: [Cz-L] Grzegosz Simonowicz - The Czernowitzer Wallenberg
>
> Czernowitzers...
>
> Jewgenija Finkel's and Markus Winkler's much-cited book "Juden aus
> Czernowitz" [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
> Wallenberg" [The Czernowitzer Wallenberg]. During the interwar period the
> Polish lawyer Grzegosz Simonowicz lived together with his wife Sofia and
> their two sons Zbigniew and Kasimir on Herrengasse 23. Grzegosz run the
> Chilean Consulate in Czernowitz on behalf of the Chilean Embassy in
> Bucharest.
>
> From a testimony by the former Czernitzer Rabbi Meschulem Rath, dated Apr=
il
> 29, 1943 we learn, that Grzegosz Simonowicz rescued about 800 Polish Jews
> from deportation to Transnistria and in addition assisted Czernowitzer Je=
ws
> in many different regards and saved the life of many of them. After the
> forced liquidation of the Chilean Consulate in Czernowitz and the dismiss=
al
> of Grzegosz Simonowicz, they emigrated to Toronto/Canada, where he deceas=
ed
> 36 years later in September 1980.
>
> This touching story on "The Czernowitzer Wallenberg" is linked to Jorge
> Schindler's research on the Chilean diplomat Samuel del Campo, subject of
> one of our threads earlier this year. Does anybody out there have any
> reminiscence on Grzegosz Simonowicz or hint to Grzegosz's family and/or
> descendants?
>
>
> Edgar Hauster <MacBookAir>
>
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