Dear Jim, Thank you so much for your message. By “dear children” my grandparents meant my father Julius Hauster and his then wife Rahel [Schella] Greif. Rachel came from a very wealthy Czernowitz family. Some of them emigrated to South America, where they built up a "white goods empire". Unfortunately for my grandparents, my father divorced Rachel in 1948 and later married my mother Ioana. Rahel also remarried, to Wilhelm Brecher, with whom she lived in Düsseldorf. Rahel and Wilhelm had a son: Daniel Cil Brecher, an Israeli historian and publicist who lives in Amsterdam and has published the highly controversial book “A Stranger in the Land: Jewish Identity Beyond Nationalism”.
https://danielcilbrecher.com/about/ Rahel died in Düsseldorf in 1998, where she was buried in the Jewish cemetery. My father, who had no “access” to the Jewish cemetery due to his (second) marriage to a non-Jew, has been buried on the other side of the cemetery fence alongside my mother since 2001. Tempi passati! Warmest wishes as always! Edgar Hauster [MacBook] ________________________________________ From: Jim Wald <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 03:43 To: Edgar Hauster; Czernowitz Discussion Group Subject: Re: [czernowitz-l] In 1946 in "Die Stimme" [The Voice]: NEWS FROM ROMANIA Fascinating and sad, Edgar. Thank you! Minor question: do you know about the Greif family you mention there? Jim On 4/1/25 16:03, Edgar Hauster wrote: Czernowitzers... A new edition of “Die Stimme”, the monthly Newsletter for the Bukovinians, was published on 01-AUG-1946. Let's take a journey into the past together to comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back then! In its „NEWS FROM ROMANIA“, “Die Stimme” reports: “The situation of the Bukovinian repatriates is still bleak. The private letters which we were able to inspect, and which we will reproduce in excerpts in the next issue, can be summarized in the statement that the external aid is far from sufficient to relieve the affected families of the terrible hardship they are suffering.” A cry for help from my grandparents in Radutz dated 10-JUN-1946 to my father Julius Hauster, who was in Bucharest at the time, documents just how desperate the situation really was: "Dear children, dear Julius! Unfortunately, we have to approach you again to help us out with a telegraphic transfer. Mother's accident has cost us 1/4 million, the rent payment for 2 months, the breadless weeks [...] and the non-payment of the pension arrears for 1945 (no money available) have completely drained us, my heart is torn, not being able to buy a hundred grams of butter for mother, who has deteriorated terribly - I too am undernourished. We eat 1/2 egg each for lunch to save on meat, and the same in the evening. [...] Where is the firewood? Heating oil 350 Lei (1/2 liter) a day, add it up! [...] Transfer by telegraph, rent payment is urgent, everything else too! Your old people! We are starving! Ask you to do something for us. We eat 1/4 bread per head per day and are starving like never before in our lives. Help us quickly! Kind regards!" http://radautz.blogspot.com https://radautz.blogspot.com/2007/11/100646-elias-hauster-julius-und-rachel.html https://www.difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:54963340-f0a2-4733-85ab-0c5cf8a4f1a7 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) "<http://radautz.blogspot.comhttps://radautz.blogspot.com/2007/11/100646-elias-hauster-julius-und-rachel.htmlhttps://www.difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:54963340-f0a2-4733-85ab-0c5cf8a4f1a7Dr.ManfredReiferfoundedtheChugOlejBukovina[AssociationofImmigrantsfromBukovina]anddecidedtopublish“DieStimme”.HeentrustedwiththistaskDr.EliasWeinstein,theformereditoroftherenowneddailynewspaper“CzernowitzerMorgenblatt”.Iwilltrytolet“DieStimme”continuetoresoundinthefutureandinviteyoutofollowmeonthisjourney.Yourcommentsarehighlywelcome!EdgarHauster[MacBook]P.S.:BycourtesyoftheDigitalForumCentralandEasternEurope(DiFMOE)>Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+" Digitization Project: https://www.difmoe.eu Edgar Hauster [MacBook] ******************************************************************************* This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. 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