Czernowitzers...
At first glance the title of the Book of the Month, January 2019, sounds unemotional, but as a matter of fact it's a real archival treasure unearthed from the deeps of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum in New York. The volume "Transfer of Jews from Transnistria to Turkey" available at our Czernowitz Book Corner
https://czernowitzbook.blogspot.com/2019/01/transfer-of-jews-from-transnistria-to.html
is anything but unemotional. These Jews in Transnistria were in large part our ancestors and their relatives and friends from Bukovina. The archival material includes these two most comprehensive reports:
• Report of the Situation of the Jews in Transnistria, January - April 1943, by the World Jewish Congress (English).
• Travel Report by Charles Kolb, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative stationed in Romania, on his journey to Transnistria between December 11-21, 1943 (French).
Just one short paragraph from the World Jewish Congress Report: "At LADIJIN (Dept. of Tulcin) near the River Bug, the deportees work in a stone quarry under conditions, worse than those of a chain gang. They did not receive even convicts' rations. Later on, most of them were deported by the Germans to areas beyond the Bug for other jobs. A letter from Gaissin, on the left shore of the Bug, reports that in March only 400 'ghost-like persons' remained of all the deportees from Ladijin. The women and children were 'liquidated'. The letter, signed by a former Czernowitz physician, ends: 'Help us! With greetings from the grave.'"
Edgar Hauster
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