Hi Lesli,
What an amazing connection - and through our friend, Zoya, too! I'm sure you're looking forward to a very special visit, and I hope you'll let us know how it went when you return. Perhaps even more surprises will be in store for you.
Best wishes,
Bruce
?On 8/22/18, 19:52, "Lesli Ross" <leslik_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
Hi, Bruce.
Thank you for the photos and advice!
Also thought you (and perhaps others on the list) might be interested in the following message pertaining to my great-uncle, the artist Leon Kopelman, I received from one of the guides recommended to me, Zoya Danilovich:
"You will be amazed by the following story: once my aunt Ada came from Odessa for a visitr, she asked me to taje her to a museum, she wanted to see Leon Kopelman's works. She told me that her best friend was Claudia Kopelman, Leon's daughter, they studied together at school No. 4 in Cz. They spend a lot of time together. Claudia was very good in math, physics and helped Ada and other school mates, she was very kind, Ada said, she shared her sandwiches witn Ada too.
Ada visited Claudia very often thye lived ina luxury apartmentin Jambula street ( down from herrengasse ).
After graduation from the unoversity Claudia moved to Lvov, she got a job there. Her husband's name was Sasha Boksiner (Boxiner ), they had 2 children: Vitaliy and Gena. Claudia used to coime from time to time with her familuy to Odessa, where my aunthad moved from Cz. They also met in Lvov, where Ada came for a visit.
"When I reread your letter, I recollected our visit with Ada to the miseum, this morning I called her and she told me the story."
Zoya told me that Ada had tried unsuccessfully to reach Claudia (who moved to the US with her family around 1993) through the Internet; of course I have now put them in touch.
What a small world!
Again, I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude to everyone who has written to help guide me. I'm becoming ever more excited about visiting Czernowitz. Although I have not as yet set the itinerary, I did make preliminary hotel reservations for the span of dates I'm most likely to be there and hope to have everything planned within the next week or so.
All the best,
Lesli
On Aug 14, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Bruce Reisch wrote:
> Hi Lesli,
>
> Very glad to help. I helped lead the indexing work on the Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery so I'm glad to make sure the information is available and useful According to our index, Leon and Charlotta are buried in Area 121 (map: <http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/newcemetery/bruce/bruce1.html>) and I'm attaching photos of his tombstone and several nearby to help you find them. The cemetery is generally overgrown but for the last decade two different international groups have volunteered to clean up the cemetery, section by section. So I hope you'll find Area 121 to be accessible.
>
> It would be interesting to share your note below with the list. When you replied to me, it came only to my email address. But if you choose "reply all", it will go as well to the list address <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> Bruce
>
> ?On 8/14/18, 5:19, "Lesli Ross" <leslik_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Hi, Bruce,
> I can't tell you how much I appreciate your email and the extremely helpful information you provided.
>
> My great-uncle was the artist Leon Kopelman. (This page on the Chernivitsi Art Museum site tells me more about him than family members have shared:
> http://artmuz.cv.ua/?page_id=755 [used the translate option to see it in English]).
>
> Now onto other resources! Thanks again.
>
> Best,
> Lesli
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:20 AM, Bruce Reisch wrote:
>
>> Hi Lesli,
>>
>> Welcome to the Group! I'm going to take on a couple of your questions.
>>
>> First of all, I don't know what resources you've already found, but you could probably learn a great deal by checking out the many links to records and other resources at this page:
>> https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/reischtoronto.html
>>
>> Note that the pre-WWII burials at the Cz. Jewish cemetery have already been posted (on jewishGen) and you can find a map of the Jewish Cemetery on our group website <Czernowitz.ehpes.com>. As far as I know, the cemetery is always open, never locked. There is no one officially there, but you can probably find what you need via the online searchable index and the maps already posted.
>>
>> I would also refer you to the records indexed by a team led by Daniel Horowitz: Czernowitz.geneasearch.net You'll find there many birth marriage and death records for Czernowitz, and you can access the actual records online at www.familysearch.org (must be a member to search these records for original copies.)
>>
>> Let us know the name of your famous, artistic ancestor! We're always interested to learn more.
>>
>> Good luck with your trip and I hope it will be highly successful.
>>
>> Bruce Reisch
>> Geneva, New York
>>
>> ?On 8/13/18, 7:22, "bounce-122754201-3497436_at_list.cornell.edu on behalf of Lesli Ross" <bounce-122754201-3497436_at_list.cornell.edu on behalf of leslik_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm new to this list, having just discovered it while starting to prepare for a visit I hope to make this fall to Czernowitz, home to my paternal grandfather's family.
>>
>> Learning about the cemetery restoration project particularly excited me as several relatives are buried in the Chernowitz Jewish cemetery, including my great-grandfather and great-uncle, a recognized artist. (The Chernivtsi Museum of Art contains a collection of his work.) Through his daughter, who was finally able to emigrate to the US after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, I have some vague information about the locations of graves and family homes.
>>
>> My interest in Czernowitz extends beyond personal connections to general Jewish significance and the Holocaust. (In the spring, I am scheduled to participate in the March of the Living for the fifth time, the fourth as an adult group leader for our region.) So in addition to searching out information on my relatives, I am looking to gain information and insight about the Jewish life that existed there.
>>
>> I welcome any advice/guidance list members are able to share. In particular:
>>
>> --Can anyone provide contact information for someone/s in Chernivtsi who could help me make advance arrangements and provide information/guidance while I'm there?
>> --Is the cemetery always accessible? Is it open only during certain hours? Do special arrangements have to be made to enter it? Is there any information about the locations of particular graves?
>> --Does anyone have experience accessing the archives housed in the city and advice as to how I should proceed to try to find records of family members?
>> --What is the minimum amount of time I should plan to spend in Chernivtsi in order to investigate family matters and experience the city?
>> --Would it be better to fly into Lviv and travel to Chernivitsi by train or to hire a car and driver?
>> --What are the best accommodations in the city (or ones to avoid. .)?
>>
>> Also: The family moved to Czernowitz from the small village of Volchinets. (According to family history, my great-grandfather had a general store there and also managed the estate of a land owner who raised horses for the kaiser's army.) I've seen information that that village is now Old Vovchinets in Glybotsky District (not found by google maps), or Novyi (or Novyy) Vovchinyets' (approximately 40 km south of Czernowitz close to the Romanian border). Does anyone know anything about this?
>>
>> Thank you very much for any and all assistance.
>> Lesli Koppelman Ross
>> Boca Raton, FL
>> leslik_at_bellsouth.net
>> 305-632-0293
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