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-extraordinary.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-steinbarg.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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