Documents, Lists, Stories and Histories
from list members




1 WW2 documents, identity cards, lists, and related items with explanations and translations. Submitted by Miriam (Mimi) Reifer Taylor.

1a.  A Brief  History of Bukovina by Miriam (Mimi) Reifer Taylor

2.  Story submitted by Nicholas Martin, written by his cousin Sali Glaubach Ragenstreif, who was three years old when sent to the Czernowitz ghetto.

3.  Ingrid Stamatson's translation from Nach Galizien. Describes travel through Czernowitz during the first decade of the 20th century.

4. A collection of documents related to Robert Gutherz  from the Romanian period submitted by his daughter,  Mariette Gutherz.

5. Narrative and pictures about the Yiddish poet and author  Hirshel Bloshtein who lived and worked in Czernowitz from 1932 to 1978 -- submitted by Monte Starr

6. Practical advice for travellers to Bukovina/Czernowitz from Miriam (Mimi) Reifer Taylor (updated July, 2004).

7. Lecture given by Florence Heymann in Jerusalem (1994).  The  work is a collection of oral histories and commentary which tries to re-create what life was like for the Jewish community of Czernowitz. Submitted by Mariette Gutherz.

8.  History of the Bucoviner Memorial Monument  Kehal Jeshurin section, Baron de Hirsch Cemeteries,  de la Savane, Montreal, Canada.  Produced by Mrs. S. Honig and Merle Kastner.

9.  Warren Brown's history of his grandfather Max Zuckerman (Brown) from Bukovina/Czernowitz.

10. Miriam Suss's account of her trip to Czernowitz/Bukovina and the placing of a memorial to the Jews in a mass grave at Bershad.

11. Thomas Weggemann's report of his May 2004 trip to Siret and Czernowitz.

12. Melita Fuhrman Vickter's 2002 trip to Czernowitz and Sadgora

13. Arthur Rindner's Czernowitz related history plus 33 photographs

14. Gabriel (Gaby) Rinzler's ghetto ID card from the Romanian period

15. English Translation  by Mimi Taylor from Hedwig Brenner's Book "Leas Fluch"

16.  Part of Mosche Rosner's Bukovina Memories translated by Miriam Lava

17. The story of the 'Finaly Affair' as told by Miriam Lava

18. The story (and picture) of the 'borrowed' Herrengasse Cobblestone by Arthur Rindner

19.  A research paper/essay regarding Mr. Nathan Klipper and his incredible uderground efforts to aid the Jews of Bukovina and those deported to Transnistria during WWII. This document is presented with permission, courtesy of Zeev (Walter) Ellenbogen. The document is in Adobe pdf format.

20.  Jane Rostos' facinating account of  the trip to the Poras Sanatorium in Solka Romania, where the great grandson of the founder would later (much later) be received by the mayor of Solka. Be sure to follow the link in the text of Jane's account!

20a. Three days in Czernowitz - May 3-5 2006 by Jane Rostos (pdf format)

21.  Dr. Robert Rosner's paper on Scientists and Mathematicians at Czernowitz University during the
era of the Habsburg Empire.  Robert Rosner was born in Vienna in 1924 and emigrated to England in 1939. After his return to Austria he studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and worked in industry. Following his retirement he studied political science and the history of science.  This paper is in  PDF format.
This is the story of Militta Seiler, born in Czernowitz in 1929 as told by herself in an inteview for the  Centropa project (Witness
22.  This is the story of Militta Seiler, born in Czernowitz in 1929 as told by herself in an inteview for the  Centropa project (Witness to a Jewish Century). Perhaps some of you knew her?  For me, her story paints a most vivid picture of life in Cernauti between the wars; during the war in Transnistria; and back to Romainia.  She recounts briefly going to the 'big Temple' and also going to the Yiddish theatre with her mother to see Sidi Tal.

23.  In summer 2006, Asya Vaisman delivered a paper entitled "Sidi Tal and Yiddish Culture in Czernowitz in the1940s-1980s" at a Moscow conference on Yiddish in the Soviet Union. Asya is a PhD. student in Harvard's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Click HERE to read this most interesting paper.

24.  Gerta Wingerd and Audrey Kim provides us with the list of names of the Jews deported from Romania to Transnistria as documented by Yakob Druker, a young accountant who was one of the 27 gravediggers at the time.  Along with the list, known as 'Druker's list', there is commentary wich explains the  list.

25.  In case you've been wondering about the 'Czernowitz District', and what towns comprise it, this abstract of conversations along with a list of the towns in three languages will satisfy.

26. Czernowitzer Gerhard Schreiber's memoirs - A Tale of Survival  (in pdf format - 42 pages).

27. A memorial to Leibu Levin, famous Yiddishist, reciter, interpreter, composer, and singer by his daughter Ruth Levin. If you're interested in Yiddish literature, poetry, and song, this biography is a very interesting read.