Dear Raul,
Welcome to the List and thank you so much indeed for your message. Your both thrilling and at the same time touching family story is highly appreciated and belongs to those contributions, which make the Ehpes Archives so valuabe! As a small reward, let me draw your attention to LIBRARIA, the Ukrainian Online Periodicals Archive:
https://libraria.ua/index.php
Introducing "Mittelmark" into the search engine will lead you to four matches. Have a closer look to the 07.02.1934 edition of "Ostjüdische Zeitung" from Czernowitz and scroll to page no. 4, left column, at the top. It reads as follows:
"STOROJINET (Deaths) - As reported to us: Recently our community member Samuel Mittelmark deceased here at the age of 60 years. The deceased was a very respected businessman and enjoyed general popularity."
Are you related? Was it perhaps your paternal grandfather? I'll send this page of "Ostjüdische Zeitung" by separate mail to you. Best!
Edgar Hauster
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From: Raul Artal <artalr_at_slu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 4:06 AM
To: Serah Kraft
Cc: Edgar Hauster; czernowitz-L
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Books of Seven Seals in Radauti and Suceava (3188 km)
Dear all,
I recently joined the group and after reading your messages many memories come back.
I was born in Bershad in April 1943. I was lucky to survive, since this was a difficult breech delivery. The physician that assisted my mother was Dr.Menczel, certainly very skilled.
This has certainly influenced my decision to study medicine and latter become an obstetrician.
My mother Roza Ghitzis was born in Hotin, My grand parents Sonia and Israel (Srul) lived in a house on "Mircea cel Mare" Street in Hotin. My grand father was a pharmacist, owned the pharmacy in Hotin, he was also the mayor of Hotin.
My mother Roza Ghitzis studied piano and graduated from the Music Academy in Czernowitz, Before the war she gave a couple concerts and recitals in Czernowitz.
After the war she returned to the Academy and taught piano.I know her boss was someone by the name of Podorenko, and one of her colleagues was Mitzi Loker
We lived on Reginal Ferdinand #46 ,at the corner of Cojbuc #1 (Osipenko) I wonder if any of you knew her and attended her concerts/recitals, or were her students.
My father name was Herman (Hans) Mittelmark, born in Storojinetz, educated and lived in Wien (Stiegengasse #4) and then Czernowitz were he met my mother.
They were both deported to Bershad, had horrible experiences: hunger, typhus,beatings, dragged behind a motorcycle by the camp commander, escaped twice executions (hiding behind tomb stones in the Bershad cemetery)
After the war, my father (he had expertise in bridge construction, his family owned a cement and construction business in Storojinetz) was recruited by the Red Army to assist rebuilding bridges destroyed by the germans. Got shot in one leg, by the notorious Bandera gang (Yes ,the same Bandera that is being now glorified...), spend months in a hospital in Czernowitz.(no antibiotics at that time.
>From Czernowitz we moved to Bacau-Rumania, then to New York and a year latter to Israel .
My parents passed away in Israel. I moved back to U.S. in 1973, and now retired in California.
We all live with many memories, if any of you knew my parents and have any details about encounters in Czernowitz or elsewhere would love to learn.
Hope to meet you all somewhere...would very much like an organized group tour to Czernowitz and Transnistria
Warm regards,
Raul Artal-Mittelmark
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