Dear All,
I today answered Josef Zissels' memorandum, which was sent to us by
Ms. Umitseva on Jan.15th
I would like you to know what I wrote and am reprinting it below:
Dear Ms. Ufimtseva, Dear Mr. Zissels
I would like to comment about the memorandum you sent to the
Czernowitz - List on January 15th.
I am a member of this list, a native of Chernivtsi/Czernowitz, born
in 1937 and the current president of
the "Czernowitz Jewish cemetery restoration Organization" (CJCRO).
Since 2008, CJCRO has actively been engaged in clearing the
Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery
of invasive trees, shrubs and vines. At this time most of the
cemetery (about 9 or 10 hectares out of 12)
have been cleared through the efforts of CJCRO.
The members of the Czernowitz-List and I are very grateful to Mr.
Zissels for creating a Jewish Museum in Chernivtsi.
Czernowitz/Cernauti became a cultural center and a notable city,
largely through the efforts of our Jewish parents,
grandparents and great-grandparents. We want the cultural legacy of
this city to be remembered and correctly attributed.
We also want it to be understood and remembered why and how the
number of Cernauti Jews dwindled and their
cultural contributions to European culture and life came to a halt.
As matters currently stand, the exhibits in the Jewish museum of
Chernivtsi hardly allude to the Holocaust,
as it affected the Czernowitz Jews. This makes the museum incomplete.
By any standard, the hostility and discrimination practiced by the
Romanian government against its Jewish subjects
before 1940 and the mass murder and deportations of these same
subjects in the years 1941 - 1944
are part of the history of the Jews of Bukovina and Chernivtsi and as
such need to be documented in the CURRENT museum.
It surely should be possible to add just one small room to the
current museum, in which could be displayed
copies of documents and decrees pertaining to the Holocaust as it
affected the Bukovinian Jews.
The ceremonial hall is NOT a suitable location for a museum; it is
too far from the city center and too large for the small number
of items we could exhibit in it. This building could be returned to
its former use use as a prayer hall for burial services
and it would be most suitable as the location of a memorial to the
Jews murdered during WW2.
One of the smaller rooms could also serve as an information center
about the adjoining Jewish cemetery,
which is one of the largest and best preserved Jewish cemeteries in
Europe.
This cemetery is of importance and interest not only to the
descendants of the people interred in it,
but also to many others who visit the city.
I have often met both Jewish and non-Jewish tourists in it.
They come to see both old tombstones and their uniquely Jewish
traditional decorations and epitaphs
as well as the tombstones designed by famous sculptors, such as
Bernard Reder.
In addition CJCRO has a plan to have German professional Garden
architects, who drew up the garden plan
for the large Jewish cemetery in Weißensee in Berlin, also draw up a
garden plan for our cemetery.
Yours Respectfully,
Miriam Taylor
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