Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:35:19 +0300
To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Dear Group,
I want to thank the members of the group for all the information and all the priceless content published in the group.
Thanks to Bruce and Edgar Hauster I found and contacted Czernowitz GeneaSearch and asked for some records of my family.
Thanks to the group I came to learn from Arthur Rindner about the memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Bukovina Jews that will be held in Kiryat Shaul – a kilometer and a half from my home…
I would like to share with you some thoughts about the 80th anniversary of the deportation from Czernowitz to Transnistria.
According to the Jewish calendar today is the date of the first transport.
Simchat Torah 5752, 1941. Eighty years ago.
My mother and her family: her parents, sister and grandmother are deported on a cattle train from Czernowitz to Transnistria. The first transport that left Czernowitz. They know it will not be good, but do not know how bad it will be.
They waited in the train station all Simchat Tora day, and at night the train begins to move.
The train reached Mărculești and from there, a month of a death march - in rain and snow, hungry and thirsty, running out of strength, they reached the Ghetto of Verkhivka.
Within two months my mother and sister are orphaned. My mother becomes the head of the family. Responsible for hers and her sister's lives.
They survived two and a half years in the hell of Transnistria.
The attached photo is pre-war.
1935. The family gathers for a festive photo at the eve of the separation from the eldest son who immigrates to Israel.
Standing in the top row - my grandfather Pinkas Schärf, my uncle - Yoel Aloni, hugging my mother's younger sister - Yona Malleyron, next to him my grandmother - Diana (Esther Dina) Schärf.
Seated below: My mother, Bella Schulman, hugging her beloved grandmother Bunia (Bertha) Horowitz nee Koren, next to them: her second grandmother Malka Schärf.
At that time, my grandfather is a senior worker in the Czernowitz train company, and is also a Zionist activist i. My grandmother volonteers as secretary of WIZO in Czernowitz. Grandma Bunya owns a very large estate in Schypynzi, - a village close to Czernowitz.
may they rest in peace.
In Hebrew we add: Land do not cover their blood.
ארץ אל תכסי דמם.
Diana
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