Hi Iris,
There is a mix up in this text as also several in the Coronet article from 1961.
Your father was of course 16 in 1940 and not 12 (45), the deportations
were not to gas chambers by Germans but to Transnistria by Romanians
(pag. 47) and other small inexactness you would expect to be made by a
journalist.
The only school in Czernowitz for Jews during the 1941-1944 period was
opened by the Jewish Community with the approval of the Romanian
authorities. It functioned mainly in the year 1943 up to early spring
1944 when the Red Army liberated us. I am not aware that it had the
right to accord diplomas of Baccalaureate (still it could have been
so) but most probably your father must have passed there the
examinations for 12th grade and got his diploma later in Romania in
1944/5. Taking into consideration his later career and talents that
should have been a minor problem for him.
I would try to look up, according to his story the Secondary school
in Bacau or Focsani. They are both not far from the Doaga camp.
So either the discovery of his real identity based on the diploma took
place in 1943 in Cernauti and not June 1944 when the town was not
under Romanian occupation, or it happened in 1944 (before August 23)
somewhere in the region of southern Moldova like the before mentioned
town of Focsani. Tertium non datum.
All the best to you and your research.
[Berti Glaubach]
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> Hi all Czernovitsi,
> Can anyone help me figure out what school my dad was likely at during the
> war? *He would have graduated high school in Czernowitz in 1944.*
>
> Here is an excerpt from the only interview with him I have:
> "Sent to still another camp, he promptly made his third escape and slipped
> back into Cernauti. There he learned that his school was conducting a
> speed-up program to allow top students to receive their diplomas. (he
> attended under his real name, Carl Schmatnik).
>
> 'The war had caused such chaos that his return was accepted without
> question. None of his teachers was aware of the fact that he ws a
> three-time escapee from forced-labor camps. In June 1944, shortly after he
> graduated, the Nazis decided to check on reports that labor camp escapees
> had filtered back into the schools. Gil was apprehended and compelled to
> show his diploma."
>
> I've tried to locate his high school graduation record but not knowing what
> school has made it hard to figure out.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Iris AlRoy
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