Mimi
Incidentally, his surname Prestupenko translated into english would be Crookman, with Polish flavor would be Criminalsky or in Yiddish Ganevman or in Russian Prestupnikov
Alex
Alexander Gelman, PhD
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> On Apr 14, 2017, at 3:33 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> Please do not hire Uri Prestupenko to find specific graves for you
> in the Jewish cemetery of Czernowitz/Chernivtsi.
> He is a crook: I asked him to find the grave of my grandmother
> and I agreed that we would pay him $50.
> Then I asked him to find the grave of my grandfather,
> He went to the office, supposedly to look up the location in the register.
> After about ten minutes he came back and said that he could not find the location.
> If we would pay him $100 he would look again.
> Stupidly we agreed.
> My grandfather's grave is exactly across the paths from my grandmother's grave.
>
> Do not encourage corruption, if the manager of the cemeteries, Anghela,
> has the death registers, demand to see them. All the prewar data is in German
> or Romanian and you can read them.
> In all my dealings in Chernivtsi on about 15 visits, no one else tried to cheat me
> Most Ukrainians, just like we, would prefer to live in an honest and fair society.
>
> Mimi
>
> Uri Prestupenko was the previous manager of the cemeteries,
> he was fired because an American tourist photographed him accepting a bribe.
>
>
>
> Mimi
>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 1:48 PM, Alexander Gelman wrote:
>>
>> No idea what his name was but he was one of the workers that does the cleaning and others jobs. We also hired him to fix my friend's father's stone
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> Alexander Gelman, PhD
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Yosi-Jerry <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you refer to Yuri Prestupenko. I was aided by him. You can reach him
>>> through the guide Zoya Danilovitch, if they are still active.
>>> Yosef Eshet
>>>
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