Dear James, Thank you so much for your kind feedback, which is very encouraging for me on the one hand, and on the other hand so important because it shows me that “Die Stimme” is generating interest.
And, no, there is no collection of articles in English. I read “Die Stimme” issue by issue and select articles that spark my interest and that I consider representative of the mental state of our ancestors and friends with increasing distance from the Holocaust and World War II. I translate striking snippets from these articles into English, relying on the ever-improving quality of online translators, such as especially DeepL. The last article on André Spire's visit to Czernowitz in particular takes an interesting and insightful turn in the next issue. "Stay tuned" and thanks a thousand again. Edgar Hauster [MacBook] ________________________________________ From: James Herer <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2025 11:42 To: Edgar Hauster Cc: Czernowitz Discussion Group Subject: Re: [czernowitz-l] A Snippet from "Die Stimme" [The Voice] in 1950: ANDRÉ SPIRE: CZERNOWITZ - MEMORIES OF A VISIT Hi Edgar, Really enjoying all the "Die Stimme" articles you've been sharing with the group. Do you have a collection of translated articles somewhere that I could access? All the best, James Herer On Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 4:48 AM Edgar Hauster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Czernowitzers... A new edition of “Die Stimme”, the monthly Newsletter for the Bukovinians, was published on 01-MAR-1950. Let's take a journey into the past together to comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back then! In July 1925, the important French poet, writer and Zionist André Spire visited Czernowitz. In an open letter to Dr. Max Diamant and Dr. Markus Krämer, which was not without controversy in the contemporary press, he harshly criticized the state of preservation of the old Jewish cemetery and the old Synagogue in Czernowitz. Now, a quarter of a century later, André Spire recalls this controversy and asks himself in the article “ANDRÉ SPIRE: CZERNOWITZ - MEMORIES OF A VISIT” quoted in the March 1950 issue of “Die Stimme” from the French “L'Écho Sioniste, as follows: "What became of Markus Krämer and Max Diamant? Were they successful in restoring the cemetery and the synagogue? Did they manage to protect them from anti-Jewish destruction and bombing? And did they manage to save their own lives...?“ [... Dr. Markus Krämer has the answers:] “What has become of me? I have seen our lifelong dream come true and am striving to devote my modest energies to the development of Israel. Officially, I do this as head of the municipal section of the Ministry of the Interior. Our Max Diamant was deported to Siberia as a Zionist for “re-education.” But there was one thing he could not learn: to survive despite hunger and slave labor. So he rests in foreign soil, and no Jewish gravestone covers his unknown grave. Unfortunately, we were unable to complete the restoration of the Jewish cemetery as you and we would have liked. The Jewish community threw him [Max Diamant] a bone here and there, and so he cleaned and tidied up and preserved what he could. People just smiled pityingly at his “whim” and it was only with great sacrifice that we were able to publish his book, whose pictures are probably the only memorial to the cemetery—because today it lies behind the Iron Curtain and no one knows what it looks like. However, we have not heard of any destruction, and perhaps a time will come when we can rescue the beautiful stones that preserve original Jewish art, passed down from generation to generation of artists. The director of the Jewish Museum in New York recently told my compatriot, the famous sculptor Benno Reder, that he considers Diamant's book to be very important and valuable." http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=6723 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Spire<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Spire> https://www.bukowina-institut.de/en/bukowiki/personen/detail?id=19 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! 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