The Jewish Plotke Agenture was not a real agency, far from it.
"Plotke" means rumor or gossip. Jews knew not to believe the official
Government comments and proclamations. Sometimes they listened to foreign broadcasts
Which were mostly correct. Jews discussed the current and past events and drew
their own conclusions, which were transmitted from person to person.
Their conclusions and predictions were far more reliable than the Romanian news
published in newspapers and broadcast on national radio stations.
During World War Two, Jews in Romania were not allowed to posses short wave radios.
My uncle built one from scratch and from time to time, my family listened on it to
The BBC news, which were totally reliable. When the Germans were defeated
At Stalingrad, my father knew about it a week or more before it was announced on radio Rumania. He told his Romanian employer, who at first did not believe him, but later said:
Cum s'a poate? Evrei tot d' a una stiu tot. (How is it possible that Jews always know
Everything?)
Mimi
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On Dec 16, 2017, at 8:06 PM, Iris AlRoy <mermamma_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi everyone, and Happy Chanuka!
> In reading an article by Anny Mater, I noticed she mentioned this agency
> several times, calling it the "Jewish Rumor Agency" or "Jieden willen Azoi"
> Anny's Story: http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/storiest/matar/matar-russ.html
>
> This interests me, and in searching ehpes I saw a few emails referencing it:
> HARDY BREIER (2014) calls it "Jewish Gossip Agency. The most unreliable
> news agency in the world."
> Rom
> Hardy Breir (2011) referencede it as "War was in the air. IPA was positive
> on this (that is the Jewish Plotke Agentur).
>
> I'm wondering where I can find more information on this agency - if I
> understand correctly, they had different chapters? Were they only in
> Czernowitz, or in many communities? And why is the acronym "IPA" if the
> name was Yiddishe Plotke Agentur?
>
> Did it morph into a different agency after the war? Did this or these
> groups have interaction with the World Jewish Congress?
>
> To find more information, should I search for terms like "Jewish
> underground news agencies holocaust"? Are there more keywords that might
> help me?
>
>
> Thank you all!
>
>
>
> *---*
>
> Iris AlRoy
>
> mermamma at gmail.com
>
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>
>
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