The Hebrew version of Elite's book is available online in the Bukovina
Organization website.
Indeed, a very good and interesting story, open the eyes about the small
every day details of the life in Czernowitz during the war.
Oren
בתאריך יום ג׳, 25 בינו׳ 2022, 01:17, מאת Dana Radler <
danaradler14_at_gmail.com>:
> Dear Czernowitzers,
>
> This group has offered so much in the past years that I can hardly convey
> my gratitude or show what learning about Czernowitz means. Even if my
> family comes from Bucharest, getting to know Elite Olshtain, currently
> Professor Emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem meant I could read
> the first testimony of a real survivor. It is difficult to express what an
> eye-opening experience this was and that it immediately stirred my
> curiosity to learn more and join this group.
>
> Elite's memoir is finally available in Romanian, adding to the already
> existing German and English versions. What does it bring about Czernowitz?
> "This memoir tells the story of a little Jewish girl born in the spring of
> 1938, just before the Second World War. The family, who was relatively well
> off, lived in a small town, which had been part of the Austro-Hungarian
> empire and was now a district of Romania. Although the anti-Semitic climate
> had increased, life was still comfortable, until the Soviets took over the
> district in 1940 and the author s father was recruited to the Red Army. In
> 1941 the Germans and Romanians conquered the town and all Jews were sent to
> a ghetto. Many of the Jews were deported from the ghetto to the
> concentration camps in Transnistria, including the author's mother. The
> little girl, however, stayed with her grandmother throughout the war. The
> mother was away for nearly three years in the camp, but miraculously, the
> whole family reunited and eventually immigrated to Israel, where they built
> their lives again."
> https://www.amazon.com/Terracotta-Ovens-My-Childhood-Czernowitz/dp/1434906531
>
> I am grateful to various members in the group for all their kind support
> over the last years whenever I asked questions, as well as to the Hasefer
> Publishing House from Bucharest which now offers this story in Romanian.
>
> I attach the cover, and below *a short fragment from the Foreword signed
> by Professor Victor Neumann, University of Timisoara*, who has generously
> accepted to present the book to the local audience:
>
> "A memoir is complementary to a history book. Beyond the subjective note that
> particularizes any recollection of the facts of personal life, memories
> are another kind of source of socio-political past events. Elite Olshtain
> did not dare, for many years, to tell what happened in her childhood in
> Czernowitz. She thought that her own life during the Second World War was
> not tragic, that it could not compare with the horrors others survived and
> are really worth telling. However, once she confronted her memories with
> historical events, she grasped why the events in her own childhood needed
> to be further told. This is how *Terracotta Ovens of My Childhood. The
> Story of a Little Girl from a Small Town Called Czernowitz* came out. It
> is a particular rendering of the Shoah, the one seen by a survivor
> recalling family life and social relationships in the context of the
> tragedy experienced by the Jews in Czernowitz and Bukovina in so many ways."
>
>
>
> So far, *I have NEVER met any community like this one, that of
> Czernowitzers* who preserve their memories and support each other in so
> many ways. You are a model I keep praising and mentioning whenever I
> discuss with various individuals, be they teachers or not.
>
> May your memories be retrieved as you strive to, be cherished and back
> everyone's life and learning! I attach the English cover, and then the
> Romanian one.
>
>
> Highly grateful for all your messages, questions and help,
>
>
> Dana Radler
>
> Bucharest
>
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