My mother, Blanka End, periodically asks me if I can find any information on the fate of Martin Pesata (spelled phonetically) who was a close friend of her brother Leopold End. Leopold died in Bershad. My mother had thought Martin may have been on the Struma, but I did not find his name on the passenger list. I would also be interested to know, if anyone on the list knew my uncle – Leopold End.
[Stephen Winters]
Category Archives: Identification
Czernowitz Unknowns…
From Mimi Taylor… Czernowitz — 1936 Unknown statue, unknown person. Maybe you know the statue and/or the person?
Tel-Aviv 1951-52 wedding picture. All Czernowitzers, but who are they?
From Bukovina via Mechelen/Belgium to Auschwitz • 1942-1944
As a result of the meticulous and thorough research of the Kazerne Dossin Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights, Mecheln-Auschwitz 1942-1944 is a trilingual series (Dutch, French and English) of four books dealing with the persecution and deportation of Jews and gypsies from the SS-Sammellager in the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen to Auschwitz. Only a few miles away fom the SS Camp Fort Breendonk, the Dossin Barracks were used from 1942 until 1944 as a transit camp for Jews and gypsies from Belgium and the North of France, assembled here to set out on their journey of no return to Auschwitz. The first part of the series presents the reader with a historical overview of the racist and anti-Semitic persecutions in Belgium and the North of France. It focuses on the complex and poignant story of the action, reaction and interaction between occupier, occupied and persecuted, confronted with the final solution. It also relates the history of each individual transport.
Parts two and three show us the portraits of 18,522 out of 25,259 deportees, wagon by wagon and transport by transport. These pictures literally give the genocide a face. Among these portraits we succeeded to identify 97 out of 104 deportees, who had their roots in Bukovina. Leon Messing, born on 12 June 1927 in Czernowitz, was 15 years old and the youngest deportee from Bukovina on the date of departure of Transport 10 on 15 December 1942. The oldest deportee from Bukovina was Abraham Moses Reder, born on 17 August 1866 in Czernowitz, i. e. he was 76 years old on the date of deportation on Transport 11 of 26 September 1942. Just like my uncle Maximilian Hauster, born on 26 November 1909 in Czernowitz, deported with Transport 19 of 14 January 1943, neither would return in 1945.
Part four contains the revised and corrected alphabetical list of names of the victims, together with biographical information about their personal fate. We have excerpted from this database those 104 deportees, who originated from Bukovina and compiled a listing in alphabetical order, which is available for download as PDF file by clicking just here or on the picture below.
Only two women and two men out of 104 deportees survived after 8 May 1945: Sara Adler and Theresia Breitner from Czernowitz, Wilhelm Berler from Nepolokoutz and Juda Meier Fleischer from Siret. 96,2% of the people originated from Bukovina deported on these in total 28 Transports were wiped out.
Help Vicki find her GF
My late Ukrainian paternal grandmother, Waselena (nee
PAVLOVIC/PAWLOWYCH/PAVLOVICI) BRESCIUC /BRESCHUK 1907 – 1980 conceived
my father in 1932 in a union with her true love who was a man other
than her husband at the time, Dimitrie Bresciuc / Breschuk. While she
was living in her home village of Cuciurul Mare (just SW of
Czernowitz) with her two eldest children, her husband was in Canada
preparing for the family’s emigration there. My father, conceived
during Dimitrie’s absence, was born in Cuciurul Mare in December 1932
and his mother emigrated solo to Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada in
1934. In 1936, my father and two older siblings were sent by
relatives to join her there. Dmitrie Bresciuc was killed in a train
accident in Canada in 1937. My father’s given birth name according to
his immigration documents is Mercea Emil BRESCIUC (BRESCHUK in
Canada).
I know very little about my bio grandfather. It was kept secret from
me until my mother clued me in with what little she knew in the late
70’s. My now deceased father never spoke of it to me. I have a vague
memory that his name could have been Anglicized as “Max Drake”, but I
am not sure how accurate that memory is. What I do know is that he
was described as “Jewish” and was “assassinated” after my grandmother
emigrated in ’34, but before the end of WWII. I suspect that his death
was the product of his Jewish faith. My sister has a vague
recollection of being told that he tried to pose as a German. Could
he have been found out and executed as a result? I don’t know how my
grandmother learned of his “assassination”.
I recently came into possession of 3 undated photos of this man. One
of them is of him posing with my grandmother. They appear to be
similar in age, he perhaps slightly older. The photos appear to have
been taken by Czernowitz (Cernauti) photographers. He may have been
from Czernovitz or Cuciurul Mare for her to have been acquainted with
him. I am willing to share these photos upon request as they are the
only substantive link to who he is. I don’t know if she brought the
photos over with her, or if there was some secretive overseas
communication and they were sent after the fact.
I am attempting to obtain my father’s birth certificate, though I
expect if it is to be found, Dimitrie Bresciuc’s name will be on it.
All other relatives who may have known this carefully guarded secret
are now deceased. I am hoping to identify this man by name or garner
some advice on how/where to do so myself.
Thanks in advance,
Vicki Bresciuc
Mural Inscription Above the Entrance to the “Groisse Shil”
Dr. Markus Krämer, Another Notable Czernowitzer
Dr. Markus Krämer (27.10.1887 – 02.06.1964), President of the Local Commitee of the General Zionists, lawyer, local council, Deputy Party Chairman of the Jewish Party for the Bukovina, member of the student’s corporation J.N.A.V. Zephirah in Czernowitz:
Click on the pictures to enlarge!
1938, row by row, from left to right: Prof. Baruch Schuller, Adv. Iosef Brender, Hans Blutstein, Dr. Ad. Kliegler, Mag. M. Geller, Dr. Ad. Ziller, Adv. L. Seidner, S. Weisselberger, Dr. Iak. Krell, Adv. Ch. Saller, Prof. I. Grünberg, Ing. D. Kronenfeld, S. Picker, Adv. Noe Lehrer, M. Schwarzkopf, Adv. I. Kirmayer, Max Reinstein, Prof. B. Eisenthal, Dr. Srul Osterer, Dr. Fr. Nasspreis, Bernh. Scherzer, Dr. Adele Fleischer, Salo Woraczek, Dr. L. Brenner, Osn. Osterer, Willy Kliegler, Eva Schieber Fiedler, Dr. Abr. Kaswan, Dr. Saul Klier, Isak Fernhof, L. Eifermann, Dr. Ulrich Schächter, Iosef Bickel, Dr. Hersch Lecker, Dr. Meinh. Roth, Dr. Paul Lessing, Adolf Feldmann, Adv. M. Schapira, Dr. L. Mader, Dr. Josef Thau, Dr. M. Wiesenthal, Dr. B. Kasvan, Dr. Bernh. Kahane, Sim. Rosenrauch, N. Linker, M. Weissmann, S. Habermann, Mend. Zucker, Adv. M. Abramovici, Calm. Katz, Ing. Isr. Stenzler, Dr. Fritz Wagschal, Ios. Kinsbrunner, Dr. Wilh. Stecher, Dr. Iacob Iekeles, Rudolf Katz, Dr. Iacob Geller, Dr. Bernh. Stecher, Dr. Leonh. Eckstein, Prof. Isr. Schleyer, Prof. Dav. Lesczer, Leo Wiener, Samuel Stieber, Dr. Benj. Lessner, Dr. Ios. Diwer, Dr. Sal. Harnik, Dr. Salo Krässel, Dr. Norbert Kiwe, Dr. Moriz Zalman, Karl Metsch, Dr. Samuel Hammer, Chaim Osterer, Dr. Emanul Wagner, Adv. Aron Hechtlinger, Dr. M. Diamant, Dr. Moses Bardich, Prof. Dr. S. Hornstein, Dr. Mar. Sommer, Dr. Ios. Kaufmann, Prof. M. Herbst, Prof. Teod. Kern, Dr. Isid. Kottlar, Dr. Mark. Krämer [Dr. Markus Kramer], Dr. Karl Hasko, Dr. S. Brettschneider, Dr. Wolf Herzberg, Dr. Iosef Sperber, Dr. Saul Geiger, Dr. Ad. Niederhofer, Dr. Herm. Ebner, Dr. Mos. Glaubach, Dr. Ios. Miseles, Dr. Mordko Rotfeld, Iakob Czaczkes, Mos. Seidmann, Adv. Iak. Hasenfratz, Iosef Kula, Adv. Israel Goldhagen, Abrah. Friedmann, Adv. Herm. Lifsches, Dr. Heinr. Kreisel, Dr. Wolf Riznik, Adv. Simon Stein, Osico Wolfshaut, Adv. Herm. Spasser, Adv. Laz. Fränkel, Adv. Er. Kupferberg, Adv. Izio Halpern, Adv. M. Hammer, Adv. Max Halpern, Mag. Ak. Finkental
1938 Altea Duamna Class in 1990’s
From Gad Rennert who writes:
Picture taken sometime in the 1990s of a gathering in Tel Aviv of classmates from 1938 class of Altea Duamna school in Czernowitz.
[We will be adding this photo to the Bukovina Get-togethers album -Jerome]
Selling Chometz in Novoselice (1904)
What I like about this job is you never know what’s going to surface. A woman wrote to me recently (Lara Diamond by name) telling of a an interesting old document she saw at a friend’s house and offered to photograph it. She thought the group would be interested, since it had a list of names attached and was from Novoselice/Novoselitsa. I agreed to have a look at it.
And this is what I present for you today: A 1904 document written in cursive Yiddish, written by the Rabbi of Novoselice: Yisrael Pesach son of Shalom Shachna Wetstein. This was the great great grandfather of Lara’s friend. The document apparently is the authorization for the sale of the town’s Chometz prior to Passover in 1904. There is a list of names at the end of the document, that most likely are the assigned buyers.
Lara says:
“These are signatures so some are difficult to read. I did my best. I suggest you put the last page on Viewmate to get an independent eye on these.
The bottom of the first page is signed by the town’s rabbi (and my friend’s gg grandfather) Yisrael Pesach son of Shalom Shachna Wetstein.
Witness at the top of the second page (first page of the two-sided document) is Avraham Chaim son of Baruch Shvartzer.
There are names in the paragraph up at the top of the last page:
Yisrael Pesach son of Shalom Shachna
Malka daughter of Rei Renish
Moshe son of Meir Veinberg
Zaan Shaya Dibes
Sara Frankfeld
Shabsei Shvartzberg
Then the rest of the page are signatures. (First word of each line is “Signed.”)
Eliyahu (illegible)
Yitzchok Reitman and (illegible) Beleson
Nachum Gruldinberg and also his brother? Pesach and (illegible) Reb Anshel
Leib son of Zev Plumilman (illegible) Yona Yilarstein
Pinchas Babia
Henech Shvartzberg
Chaim Feitia Kapilivike
Avraham Chaim Sheishesh? And Matisya Varman?
(Illegible) Sara Mecharkle
(illegible) Yaakov Yosef Yazlivt
Shlomo Vanblakis??
Yosef Kantirzshna
Mechael Veinberg
Hersh Leib Shich? and his brother Yisrael Shich
Yisrael Nicherberg
Tzvi Gezner”
And for those who can… here is the document, hand written in Yiddish, [Correction –The document is written in cursive Hebrew not Yiddish as originally posted –see commnets below] in pdf format:
Lara notes: “There are two documents. One is one page and the other is 2 pages (on 2 sides of the page).
The first picture is an overview of the one pager. Then I have 3 close ups of that page.
Then an overview of each of the sides of the other. Then I zeroed in on a list of names (actually signatures).”
Jerome notes:
According to the CIA, there are over 25 towns in today’s Ukraine with the name Novoselista. Is this ‘our’ Novoselista at 48°13’00″N : 26°17’00″E ? I ran this by Yosi Eshet who didn’t think so. Lara thinks it is, and I have no idea. Maybe someone will recognize a name and we’ll have the answer?
Jerome
Girl’s High School No. 2 – Liceul de Fete L.F.2
LEAVING SCHOOL CLASS 1938 (CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE!)
Bukovina Women’s Society in Tel Aviv
Bukovina Women’s Society in Tel Aviv
First row, sitting from left to right: Lizzy Edelstein, Lola Körner, Mady Elefant,
Genia Albin (chairperson), Zunia Schifter (honorary president), Fanny Glasberg, Klara Blum.
Second row, sitting: (left) Sali Kula (secretary), (right) Hilde Katz.
Standing, from left to right: Lizzy Osterer, Gerda Berger, Rosa Rittberg, Fanchette Melzer,
Fanny Bernstein, Martha Kissmann, Dr. Rachelle Rinzler, Dr. Erich Neuborn, Lola Wildmann,
Dorit Wagner, Lodzia Besner, Tella Löbel and Lona Münzer