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
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<bounce-122685819-14007051_at_list.cornell.edu> áùí Edgar Hauster
ðùìç: éåí â 10 éåìé 2018 13:25
àì: Czernowitz Discussion Groupþ <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
òåú÷: Ruth Goldþ <glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>; Raul Artalþ <artalr_at_slu.edu>;
Iosif Vaismanþ <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>
ðåùà: [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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