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Fredi's (Schneider's) story is very interesting. Especially, the part
describing the reception of the Calotescu "autorizatzie". When we were on
the way to the cattle cars waiting to "voluntarily" take us to
Trasnsnistria , my late father was told to go back to the Police station,
they were looking for him and wanted to give him a "Calotescu permit". This
enabled us to stay in the Ghetto until 1944-1945.
On this opportunity, .my warm congratulations to Fredi, my former classmate
to his 90th birthday. Both of us are of the same age, born at the
Neuweltgasse 49.
Mazal Tov. Ad meah veesrim.
[Abraham Kogan]
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Alfred Schneider <asfred_at_comcast.net>
wrote:
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> Dear Ian,
> I read with interest the recent correspondence on the subject and I want
> to=
> share with the readers of CZ-L some personal experiences when the loyalty
> =
> of a Bojaner Chassid could have altered my fate forever.
> My father, Dr. Artur Schneider, was born in Bojan in 1992. My grandfather,
> =
> Abraham Itzhak Schneider, was a merchant and member of the Jewish
> Community=
> Council before WW I.
> Starting in the mid-thirties, my maternal uncle Gustav Landwehr and his
> fam=
> ily, including his in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Loebl, rented the second floor of
> =
> the Rebbe's residence. I remember attending, in 1939, the Bar Mitzvah of
> my=
> cousin Fredi Landwehr in the Synagogue next-door.
> In the Fall of 1941, the deportations of the Jews from the Ghetto had
> progr=
> essed to the point where about 20,000 Jews were still in Czernowitz.
> Depriv=
> ed of any further hope, the Jews went "voluntarily" to the railroad
> station=
> to board trains with cattle cars that would take them eastward. In one of
> =
> the cars were the families of Uncle Gustav Landwehr, Uncle Hermann
> Landwehr=
> , Mr. and Mrs. Loebl, and I, fifteen years old. With no Romanian soldiers
> i=
> n sight, we had made ourselves comfortable in the car, when two of my
> old=
> er cousins, Bertl and Busiu Landwehr, arrived from the Ghetto to tell us
> th=
> at Governor Calotescu's office had just announced that about 15,000 Jews
> wi=
> ll be exempted from deportation, if they receive an "autorizatie", and we
> s=
> hould immediately return to the Ghetto.
> Mr. Loebl promptly declared that he will not get off because his rebbe had
> =
> left a few days earlier and it is his duty to follow him. Uncle Gustav
> stat=
> ed that he cannot leave his elderly in-laws alone and will also stay, and
> U=
> ncle Hermann would not leave his brother. This left only me and Busiu and
> B=
> ertl said they are not interested in my opinion, grabbed my backpack and
> ac=
> cordion and ordered me to go with them. And so a large group of my family,
> =
> the youngest being little Ossy, Hermann"s son, left for the unknown...
> Hermann perished on the way, Mr. Loebl died shortly thereafter, the others
> =
> survived in Yampol. After liberation in 1944, cousin Fredi volunteered as
> a=
> n interpreter to the Soviet Air Force and after the war made it to
> Palestin=
> e, via Cyprus. He distinguished himself in the wars of independence and
> 195=
> 6, and raised a beautiful family. Little Ossy and his mother returned to
> Cz=
> ernowitz but missed a chance to leave the USSR and remained there. Ossy
> bec=
> ame a Dental Surgeon and he and his wife, both underground Zionists in
> Leni=
> ngrad, managed to get to Israel in the early seventies. Ossy died several
> y=
> ears ago, his wife Sofa Landver was elected to the Knesset and has served
> f=
> or the past seven years as Israel's Minister for Immigration and
> Absorption=
> .
> As to myself, I have lived 69 years in the US, am the only survivor of the
> =
> group in the cattle car at the Station and the two rescuers, and will
> obser=
> ve next month my 90th Birthday.
>
> Alfred Schneider, Ph.D.
> Professor Emeritus
> Georgia Tech and MIT
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----From: Ian Beitel <ianbeitel_at_sympatico.ca>To:
> Cz=
> ernowitz Discussion Group <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>Sent: Sun, 27 Nov
> 2016 =
> 18:00:38 -0000 (UTC)Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Boyan Rebbe
>
> > On Nov 27, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Ian Beitel <ianbeitel_at_icloud.com> wrote:>
> >=
> Thanks to Abraham Kogan, Benjamin Grilj and Paul Heger for your replies
> co=
> ncerning my interest in the Czernowitz Rebbe and his home. My name today
> is=
> Beitel but it was Beutel when my father lived in Czernowitz. He was born
> i=
> n Bojan in 1907 to Usher Beutel and Malka Scharfstein. Usher’s
> father=
> was Israel Lieb known as Srul Lieb and I am told that he was the Gabbai
> to=
> the First Boyaner Rebbe but I have not been able to substantiate that. My
> =
> father left for Canada from Czernowitz in 1928. He and his family probably
> =
> lived there from 1914 onwards. Usher along with three other family members
> =
> joined my father in Montreal in 1930. Usher had a brother, Isak Aron who
> al=
> so lived in Czernowitz and died in 1932 and is buried in the cemetery
> there=
> . On a visit to Czernowitz in June 2015 I was unable to find his
> gravestone=
> due to the massive overgrowth even though I had an accurate location. As
> f=
> ar as I know these are the only Beutel relatives that I had with a
> Czernowi=
> tz connection. If anyone can fill in any dots for me it would be greatly
> ap=
> preciated. I’d also like to thank the members of the group for this
> l=
> ively, informative and above all loving forum.> > ian beitel
>
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