Hi Edgar, What a great piece from "Die Stimme" that definitely gives myself and our fellow Czernowitzers much to mull over. I wonder - are there records available from the voyages of the "Transilvania" that might illuminate the names and faces of these brave survivors and resettlers?
Always happy to find another email about our ancestral home, James Herer On Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:16 AM Edgar Hauster <[email protected]> wrote: > Czernowitzers... > > A new edition of “Die Stimme”, the monthly Newsletter for the Bukovinians, > was published on 01-DEC-1950. Let's take a journey into the past together > to comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back > then! > > In Dr. Elias Weinstein's editorial in the December 1950 issue of “Die > Stimme”, he states: > > “WE HAVE CEASED TO BE A JEWISH COMMUNITY IN BUKOVINA, BUT WE HAVE REMAINED > A BUKOVINIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY.” > > This could also be the motto of our Czernowitz-L Discussion Group, because > to keep it that way, I’m keeping you informed. “THEY ARE HERE!” is this > month's headline, but the ship, the “Transilvania” is the same as it was a > year ago, only the number of passengers has increased: > > "Even if not all of our compatriots from Bukovina, which has become partly > Russian and remained partly Romanian, have arrived yet we can encounter > them on the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa at almost any time of > day. [...] We no longer recognize many of them. They have naturally got > older, and Antonescu, Transnistria, and the uprooting of the people's > democracy have also changed them considerably. They have actually been on > the move since 1945, since the days when a new regime in northern Bukovina > destroyed the foundations of their existence. They lived in the old > Romanian empire or in Transylvania, where they found work somehow, or > depended on the help of the Joint (as long as they were allowed to help) or > from relatives in America. Some of them also spent time in the cities of > southern Bukovina, where they, the former merchants, industrialists, > lawyers, teachers, etc., were registered as recipients of social > assistance. They spent most of their time completing the formal > requirements for aliyah. They applied for passports and waited their turn > to travel to Haifa on the ‘Transilvania’. The wait was not a short one, and > it was not uncommon for them to be overcome by well-founded doubts as to > whether they would be granted permission to make the journey. > > https://www.difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:6cf3046f-fc3d-4e9d-8461-9e8a33e64a0c > > 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 > > ******************************************************************************* > 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 the directions at > https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris > > To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* 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 the directions at https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
