Thank you for sharing this, It reminds me of the many times my late mother,
Pearl Spiegel Fichman, spoke admiringly of Traian Popovici in telling the story
of living, with her parents, to be survivors of the ordeals of the the war, the
ghetto, and (evading) the transport to Transnistria.
Eytan Fichman
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M. 42 / 11 Trần Bình Trọng,Ngô Quyền, Hải PhòngViệt Nam
On Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 09:51:24 PM GMT+7, Edgar Hauster
<[email protected]> wrote:
Czernowitzers...
A new edition of “Die Stimme”, the monthly Newsletter for the Bukovinians, was
published on 01-JUN-1946. Let's take a journey into the past together to
comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back then!
In an obituary of DR. TRAIAN POPOVICI, the former Mayor of Czernowitz, who went
down in history as the Righteous Among the Nations, we read about the hidden
activities in his law office: “This office was subsequently the refuge of the
political commission of the illegal Zionist Organization on days when serious
measures threatened our brothers and us. Here we made our secret plans aimed at
establishing a connection with Jerusalem, from here we made attempts to inform
the Red Cross and the Vatican about our situation, with the Catholic prelate
effectively assisting us. Here, together with Ing. Wronsky and Eisenberg, the
leading members of the Jewish-Polish Committee, we prepared the defence and
rescue of the refugees from neighbouring Poland who had been summoned before
the military court - the office of Dr. Trajan Popovici was our asylum in the
bitterest hours.”
Like thousands and thousands of other Jews from Czernowitz, my grandparents
Elias and Marjem Hauster survived the Holocaust thanks to the initiative of
Traian Popovici and several other courageous Romanian political leaders, such
as Minister Dr. Dori Popovici, Inspector General Mihai Paun and General Dumitru
Petruc. This is well documented, but the underground activities that took place
in Traian Popovici's law office were completely new and most interesting to me
and probably to many others.
https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/popovici.html
https://www.difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:41d6e602-ef65-436c-8675-7a2a55976063
Dr. Manfred Reifer founded the Chug Olej Bukovina [Association of Immigrants
from Bukovina] and decided to publish “Die Stimme”. He entrusted with this task
Dr. Elias Weinstein, the former editor of the renowned daily newspaper
“Czernowitzer Morgenblatt”.
I will try to let “Die Stimme” continue to resound in the future and invite you
to follow me on this journey. Your comments are highly welcome!
Edgar Hauster [MacBook]
P.S.: By courtesy of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe (DiFMOE)
"Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+" Digitization Project: https://www.difmoe.eu
Edgar Hauster [MacBook]
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