Re: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, March 2017: The People Accuse!

From: Sylvia de Swaan <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 20:40:07 -0500
To: Bianca Rosenthal <brosenth_at_calpoly.edu>
Reply-To: Sylvia de Swaan <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com>


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what a fascinating thread!

(Hi Arthur)

Sylvia

www.sylviadeswaan.com
http://www.artphotoindex.com/SylviadeSwaan
<http://artphotoindex.com/SylviadeSwaan>

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Bianca Rosenthal <brosenth_at_calpoly.edu>
wrote:

> Hello all,
> The painter Daghani and his wife kept a diary in the Transnistria
> camp Michailovka. The diary was published in 1947 in Bucharest as "Groapa
> este in livada de visini". In Israel it was published in 1961
> under the title "Lasst mich leben" (Let me live). The English version "Th=
e
> Grave in the Cherry Orchard", was published by Adam Press, London (1947 a=
nd
> 1961).
> In 1976, Hersch Segal a former beloved Czernowitz high school
> teacher edited the Selma Merbaum poems in "Bluetenlese" that he obtained
> through various intermediaries. On page 80 of that issue there is a drawi=
ng
> by Daghani showing the lowering of a dead person from an upper bunk in th=
e
> camp.
> That was Selma Merbaum who had died on December 16, 1942 in the camp.
> Daghani published the drawing under the title "Pieta". The original is at
> "Yad Vashem" in Jerusalem.
>
> Bianca Rosenthal
>
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 12:19 AM, Arthur von Czernowitz <
> vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> My Story
> =E2=80=9CGroapa este in Livada de Vi&#537;ini" by Arnold Daghani.
> I believe Daghani is a distant relive of ours.
> After running away from Carieria de Piatra and Mikhalowka, Daghani and
> Ani&#537;oara ended up in our hut in Ber&#537;ad. I was only 6 years old =
at
> the time. All that I remember was that he constantly painted. One morning
> they disappeared and we never heard from them again. In 1947-1948 we
> received the book. In the book was a picture of a painting of our hut in
> Ber&#537;ad.
> When we left Romania to make Aliya to Israel the book was confiscated by
> the Romanian Authorities.
> In 2006 on a visit to Bucharest I was able buy the book in a book store,
> but in this book there were no pictures of Daghani=E2=80=99s paintings.
> Arthur

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