hI eDGAR
wILLY bERLER WAS A GOOD FRIEND AND NEIGHBOUR IN OUR TEENAGER AGE. iN MY
FOTOARCHIVE I HAVE A PICTURE WITH HIM AND OTHERS AT THE SKATING/0PLAXCE
IBTHE THATER-LACE, WHERE IN THE 1934 THEY major decided to build the
Cultural Palace, where the SSbroutht the Rabby Dr,Mark and 400 jewish man,
afterworth to murder them...He set me his book in english, I was invited to
him, when I was travelling through Belgium to London in 1969 the house was
full of Czernowitzerm I will send you some pictures and I met him some yrars
ago, when he was invited by Shimon Peretz to come to Israel for receiving a
medal for his help to build the installations of The/Boker. we met in
Tel/Aviv, also with Laethe Krathammer, the wife of his friend with whom he
went to Marse8ille...But Gerdi Krauthammer ddid not return to Liege, he
went to Lissabone and to Israel, around Afrika...
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Best regards
Hedwig.
From: Edgar Hauster
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 1:05 AM
To: Czernowitz Discussion Group
Subject: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, July 2016: Journey Through Darkness
Czernowitzers...
Willy Berler was born in Czernowitz on April 11, 1918. He spent his 25th
birthday as a prisoner of the SS Camp Fort Breendonk in Belgium and from
there, one week later, on April 19, 1943, he has been deported via the
Mechelen Transit Camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau with Transport 20. Willy
Berler's incredible Holocaust survivor story "Journey Through Darkness",
available in German, French, Spanish and Hebrew too, became our Book of the
Month, July 2016:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2016/07/journey-through-darkness-durch-die.html
Download and read as an extract from the book the tri-lingual (EN/DE/FR)
transcription of the first book chapter "A Young Bourgeois Jew from the
East", very exemplary for many high/middle class Jewish families from
Czernowitz during the interwar period. Willy Berler missed by six weeks my
uncle Maximilian Hauster, who, after an imprisonment in Fort Breendonk for
nearly one and a half years, has been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau with
Transport 19 as early as 14.01.1943 and perished there. On "The Destruction
of Jews and Gypsies from Belgium - Mecheln-Auschwitz 1942-1944" please read
my posting
http://czernowitz.blogspot.de/2013/12/mecheln-auschwitz-1942-1944-destruction.html
and learn more on the fate of 104 deportees - Index of names available! -
from Bukovina, out of whom just four, two men and two women (i. e. 3.8%)
survived, including Willy Berler!
Edgar Hauster
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