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Sent from the all-new AOL app for iOS On Monday, January 24, 2022, 6:17 PM, Dana Radler <[email protected]> wrote: 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 anyrecollection of the facts of personal life, memories are another kind of source ofsocio-political past events. Elite Olshtain did not dare, for many years, totell what happened in her childhood in Czernowitz. She thought that her own life during theSecond World War was not tragic, that it could not compare with the horrorsothers survived and are really worth telling. However, once she confronted hermemories with historical events, she grasped why the events in her ownchildhood needed to be further told. This is how Terracotta Ovens of MyChildhood. The Story of a Little Girl from a Small Town Called Czernowitz cameout. It is a particular rendering of the Shoah, the one seen by a survivorrecalling family life and social relationships in the context of the tragedyexperienced 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 This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. To remove your address from this e-list follow these directions. 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