My family was also given the Popovici authorization, which I still have
And we were lucky to be given the Antonescu authorization, when the Popovici
Authorization was invalidated, I also still have this one too.
The "Report of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission of July 1945 should be given no more
Credence than the Soviet reports on the fulfillment of the periodic "five year plans".
Traian Popovici most certainly did NOT personally, or indirectly command the
Execution of Jews in Czernowitz and vicinity. The opposite is true; he tried assiduously
To prevent the deportations and the murder of the Jews of Czernowitz.
In November 1941, I was only four and a half years old, but I vividly remember
The evening on which my father obtained the Popovici Authorization.
On that same evening, just before my father returned from the office in which
the authorizations were issued, two Romanian soldiers came to the apartment in which
we were staying in the ghetto in order to pick us up to be deported. Only my mother's
Vehement assertions, that our name was not "Reifer" and that she had no documents at hand,
Because my father had taken them with him in order to be given the Popovici authorization,
Saved my mother and me from being picked up and ending up in Transnistria.
All through the years, I very often heard my parents and their relatives and friends discuss
The war years and how lucky and grateful they were to have been saved from deportation
By mayor Popovici.
Yevgenia Finkel should have asked the old Czernowitzers, of whom there were still many
Living in Czernowitz, about the wartime events, rather than trusting Soviet reports.
Mimi (Miriam Taylor)
Sent from my iPad
On Jul 21, 2018, at 4:27 AM, eshet yosef <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Hi
> As somebody whose family was awarded the POPOVICI AUTHORIZATION which was
> supposed to save him and his family from deportation to Transnistria camps
> (and in fact did save many), but.... whose Authorization was cancelled by
> Governor of Bucovina - Calutescu. I can't accept this statement which comes
> from Soviet sources. I can add as a remark that my family was saved by
> miracle from deportation to Siberia on two occasions - once, before the
> Nazi occupation, and sometime after we returned from Transnistria under
> Soviet Regime. And After saying all this it must be said that wouldn't it
> have been for the Red Army we would have perished in Transnistria like other
> many hundred Thousand Jews.
> Yosef Eshet
>
>
> -----הודעה מקורית-----
> מאת: bounce-122685819-14007051_at_list.cornell.edu
> <bounce-122685819-14007051_at_list.cornell.edu> בשם Edgar Hauster
> נשלח: יום ג 10 יולי 2018 13:25
> אל: Czernowitz Discussion Group <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> עותק: Ruth Gold <glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>; Raul Artal <artalr_at_slu.edu>;
> Iosif Vaisman <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>
> נושא: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, July 2018: Report of the "Soviet
> Extraordinary Commission" for Czernowitz
>
> Czernowitzers...
>
> Let me present to you, as the primary source for Yevgeniya Finkel's five
> "Vestnik" volumes (Book of the Month, July 2018), the original "Report of
> the 'Soviet Extraordinary Commission' for Czernowitz":
>
> http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.com/2018/07/final-report-of-soviet-extraordin
> ary.html
>
> The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum writes on this Report: "[...]
> Fond 653. Soviet Extraordinary Commission. July 1945. Trajan Popovici, Mayor
> of Cernauti personally commands executions. Killings, torture, etc. List of
> citizens repatriated to Cernauti. List of those killed by occupiers with
> indication of ethnicity (almost exclusively Jews.) Letters from Jews from
> Transnistria to their relatives in Bukovina asking for help. (Russian). List
> of Soviet citizens deported in Fascist Slavery in Germany with indication of
> ethnicity (July 5 1945). 50.000 deported. Names of 1,053 identified, the
> names of the rest impossible to identify. Information of damages inflicted
> by the occupiers. Declarations of Jews concerning goods that were
> confiscated from them."
>
> These data provided the basis for Yevgeniya Finkel's five "Vestnik" volumes,
> brought to you as Book of the Month, July 2018:
>
> http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.com/2018/05/vestnik-herald-of-eliezer-steinba
> rg.html
>
> Let me draw your attention to the following remark, subsequently added to my
> posting: There is no doubt that Yevgeniya Finkel conducted the research with
> the greatest possible care. But, considering her very limited access to
> other sources and poor research conditions, there is no guarantee of any
> kind that the information it contains is accurate and/or complete."
>
> Over decades after WW2, being still in Czernowitz Yevgeniya Finkel had to
> face how the Soviet regime misinterpreted the Jewish (!!!) victims of the
> Holocaust denying their ethnicity and thus the reason for their suffering.
> Labelling the crimes as "atrocities committed by German-fascist occupiers
> and their collaborators against citizens of the USSR" was an additional
> crime on top of the Holocaust itself.
>
> Thanks go to fellow member Iosif Vaisman, who translated the report cover
> and who drew my attention to the USHMM resource!
>
> Edgar Hauster
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