What an unbelievable stoey !!!!!
Hardy
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] 1941 deportation selection method
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Thanks for the detailed information
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 at 5:37 am, Robert Burton <
robert.burton_at_cobobholdings.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I have a story to tell. In August 1939 my parents left Cz. and sailed to
> New York on the Staatendam, which was either torpedoed or scuttled on its
> return to Rotterdam. They had a transit visa to Canada, and were detained
> until they travelled. They crossed into Canada on August 27, one week
> before Canada declared war. They held an entrepreneur's visa - because
they
> had promised to start a business and provide jobs. Their parents remained
> in Cz.
>
> My mother's father, Max/Meir, wrote from Pedoulas, Cyprus in December of
> 1942. He had come down with serious heart desease. He wrote of massacres
> and a 10,000 death one in in Cz. He wrote that they were forced to move
> into the ghetto, and slept on the floor "like herrings". They had passage
> on the Struma (200,000 lei per person), but could not get exit visas in
> time. The day after they moved into the ghetto, the transports to
> Transnistria started. He wrote of the sweeps picking up Jews for
> transportation, which came by street. My father, I remember, told me that
> they "escaped" because, when he - my father - had worked in Cz, he
> travelled to Hungary as a Baptist, and the sweeps started from the
> Hungarian side - presumably using border crossing information. Once the
> transportations started to sort out, everyone had to appear before a
> Judenrat commission, to either be listed or exempted - industrialists,
> specialists, essential workers got the exemptions. His wife's brother,
> Sigmund, was on the Judenrat, and got him a work permit based on owning a
> business, an exemption from transportation. The grounds for exemption
were,
> interestingly, not only business owner, but cultural councillor or living
> in mixed marriage (married to a Christian). In October (1941 ?) the
> Rumanians began to seize businesses, and around October 20, he found out
> that his factory was now owned by a certain Dr. Balceanu - "the one with
> the long beard". But luckily, he got a job working there - as did some
> other family members - thanks to Sigmund, who had secretly negotiated the
> terms of the seizure. Finally July (1942 ?) arrived and they booked
> passage. A few days later he was rounded up and taken to Maccabiplatz to
> assemble for transport, but was released in the evening - because he was
on
> the list of ones to be "scratched" (I have the German original that was
> translated by Henry Wellisch, but I can't read the old writing to try to
> pick the German word that was used.). I presume he meant he was exempted
> from transportation.
>
> My grandparents did sail - on the Vitorul - a coastal boat - that broke up
> in Constantinople harbour, and Max went into the water. They got emergency
> 30-day visas, but could not get visas for Cyprus right away, and Turkey
> only reluctantly extended the visas - two extensions. By December 1942
they
> were in Cyprus. Max died there in 1943 - at the time the third Jewish
> grave. My father's parents, who were with them, were able to fly to Beirut
> and then to Palestine (I have the passports). I don't know how, but Max's
> widow, Regina/Rachel also got to Palestine. My mother's sister who had
> married and moved to Bucharest, made it overland to Palestine with her
> husband. By 1951 they were all in Toronto, together with my mother's
> brother, Edward (frenchified to Edouard), who had gone to France to become
> a doctor, and who married a French Catholic nurse - who had carried the
> seal of the Free French Government in Exile in Occupied France. My father
> told me, though, that it was only when Rommel was defeated at El Alamein
in
> 1943, and the tide of the war had turned, that he felt he had run far
> enough.
>
> Rehards to All.
>
> Bob
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