From Charles Rosner  rosnerch@aol.com

At least, one of my mother's brothers was well known in Cz in the thirties: Edi Wagner, who created a folkloric ensemble (Die Rote Kapelle) in 1934, trying to resist the Romanian fascist environment. Towards the end, the ensemble had about 100 young people from all 'nationalities' (Jews, Germans, Ukrainians, Romanians, etc) who sang, danced and played balalaika and guitar.

They gave a dozen performances in Cz, Bukowina and also in the old Regat, encountered great popular success, but in August 1936, the Siguranta arrested Edi Wagner: he was beaten and tortured to death and finally thrown out of a second floor window at police HQs.  Edi Wagner was not yet 26 when he died.

[The photo below] shows part (about 20 people) of Edi Wagner's orchestra: my mother is second starting from right (my father is standing behind her) and my mother's sister (Gabrielle's husband mother) is sixth. I believe that the first on the right is Johann Schlamp, a German C'zer who was mainly a singer of the ensemble (still alive: he is now 92 and lives in Cz)

[If] anyone on the List  recognizes someone in the picture,  of course I'd like him/her to let me know.

Charles Rosner

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