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Hi Rick,
You can ask me any question about Cz.
I left the town in1945 at age 15. As your father was also fortunate not to
be deported.
The name Held sounds familiar, somehow I associate it to Schletter or
K=C3=B6rner.
Best,
Berti.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Rick Held <rickheld08_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> My name is Rick Held and my father Berthold Alexander came from
> Czernowitz. He migrated to Australia with his parents in 1948.
>
> I am a screenwriter, and now I am writing my first novel. It is a work o=
f
> fiction based on a passage in my father=E2=80=99s memoirs, which he hand =
wrote when
> he was 71. He passed at 80.
>
> The passage tells his extraordinary story - one, of course, of many - of
> how he survived under the Nazis. He does not record much on the specific=
s
> of his family=E2=80=99s release from the ghetto, i.e. the Popovici factor=
, but they
> were indeed among those fortunates who were allowed to return to their
> homes, thanks to him.
>
> To accurately fill out the details of my novel I would dearly love to be
> able to ask questions about daily life in Czernowitz. Thanks to help fro=
m
> Prof Kwiet at the Sydney Jewish Museum, and his introducing me to the
> remarkable Maurice Linker, several have already been answered. But in th=
e
> coming months I will no doubt have many more that they have not been able
> to help me with.
>
> If any of you are able and willing to help, please let me know. The blo=
g
> site you have all created is a truly special project and I am very gratef=
ul
> for it.
>
> Rick
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