Category Archives: Identification

Transnistria Card

Posted for Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker:


the following correspondence has been added for context by the administrator:
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From: Rabbi Tal Zwecker [mailto:tal.zwecker@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:53 AM
To: Irene Fishler
Cc: romers@shaw.ca
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] What to do with Transistria Documents?

Hi Jerome can you please add this to Ehpes? and mail the link to the
Czernowitz list so others can share,

It is my grandmother’s Transitria Card
I will send you a story to go with it soon

thanks
Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker
Bet Shemesh
Israel

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From Irene Fishler
Well, Tal, this NOT a Transnistria ID-Card.
I wondered if something like this ever existed at the time of deportation.
Can you read Rumanian or French?

This is a document issued in 1947 in Bucharest by an organisation called
“Association of Former Deportees to Transnistria” -probably according to
some international agreements and sanctioned by the Rumanian Government .
This “paper” gave the repatriated people some priveleges. That’s what I
understand.

It IS a very important and interesting document, of course.
We would like to hear the story your grandma.

Thanks,
Irene
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Offenberg Relative – do you recoginize?

From Hedwig Brenner

Looking for some pictures, I found this lady, Offenberg, a distant relative of my mother in law.

She arrived in Czernowitz illegaly in 1942 from Poland with her husband and a baby. She was hidden by other relatives and asked us for some “Luminal” a medicine for sleep, to give her child, otherwise her uncle was afraid to host them.

If the Germans or Roumanians will catch them, they will be sent to an extermination camp… Mother gave her some tablets and she disappeared, we never heard about them again.

Does someone on this list know of this woman Offenberg? That name is written on the back of this photo.

Hedwig

Two Czernowitzer Ladies in Bucharest!


Netka and Rachelle Peretz

Netka an Rachelle Peretz in front of th Bucharest Main Post Office.
In 1972 it became became the National Museum of History.

 
Alternate utilization due to parking place shortage in Bucharest.

The Czernowitzer newspaper “Der Tag” is reporting on the stylish
window display of the sporting goods store M. Gelband.

Photo of three ‘boys’

Referring to the Ehpes Postcard Collection, Album 13 Irene Fishler wrote…

[… ] On page 3 ,the last row, a small street photo from 1942 ( number 00063x9c ?)
Three boys in winter . Do they wear the yellow stars ? What do you think?

I’ve (jerome, that is) taken a shot at reprocessing the original. I’m not sure it’s any more help, but for what it’s worth…

Original:

Dr. Manfred Reifer

“Der Tag” has brought up to “now“ at least 3 critical articals about Reifer’s paper in the Allgemeine Zeitung. On the net I found a French translation, but none English or Hebrew and not the Original. It appeared on September 2, 1933 and was for obvious reasons not very much liked by the Jewish community and probably not preserved by individuals.As there might be important differences (misunderstanding or even bad faith) between the French version and the original I would very much like to read the article as it appeared and also Dr.Reifer’s answers and excuses for it.  Can somebody find this written material from 1933 or later?As Dr.Reifer, one of the prominent Czernowitzer Jews, critically expounded the Jewish role in the rising of Nazi Germany, and that from a  Zionist standpoint – his article being cited up to now by antisemites- it would be nice to have its entire original text for study .Unfortunately my personal connections (one uncle who was second in charge to him at the Keren Hayesod in Cz. and others) that could provide more information are long dead. Does anybody remember the case?Berti

Strohwitwer

Since reading the “Tag” dailyI am verywell informed about what happened in the town when I was only 3 years old. Many names appear that I recall from the later 1930th. In to-days’ edition there is for the first time an announcement that must have been revolutionary for the time.

A man whose wife is away for several weeks looks for a nice young woman for company. Look on page 3, November 23 1932.Edgar must have read in the next numbers of the paper if this was a hoax or indeed in 1932 they already had a “mica publicitate” that compares with our times.

Was it an April 1 announcement in  November, or did somebody really mean it, and if this is so how can we make out who that man was? Any ideas?Also why are some announcemeents in latin letters while the main text and other announcements are still gothic?

Berti.

The Third Man Enigma

Rose Ausländer, Helios Hecht, Itzik Manger, Arnold Schwarz (?)

Is the third man at the right really Arnold Schwarz, the editor of the Czernowitzer daily newspaper “Der Tag”? Experts are in doubt, me too, as Arnold Schwarz, born in 1880, would have been 48 years old on that photo from the year 1928. Please help and let us know your knowledge/supposition!

The J.N.A.V. Zephirah in Czernowitz and Frederik Grinberg

Frederik Grinberg, son of Isac Iacob and Rachel Lea Grünberg, was born as Frederic Grünberg in Czernowitz on 22.02.1938. Currently he is living, together with his wife, Liubov Medzhybovskaja-Grinberg, in modest circumstances in Germany. I’ve been visiting this couple, both of them doctors, several times and released an article (in German) on this meetings:

Frederik Grinberg und die J.N.A.V. Zephirah

I’ve taken notice of his biography by the article “Mein Leben im Ghetto und auf dem okkupierten Territorium”, released by the Project Group Migration – History from Mülheim an der Ruhr. Beside the different documents from WW2 and the original Star of David from the Czernowitz Ghetto, which I’ve photographed (see the above mentioned post), there were two impressive pictures, that – thanks to Peter, Eli, Irene and Mimi – we could identify as pictures from the years 1920 and 1938 of the J.N.A.V. Zephirah.

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

I would be pleased to receive your comments, suggestions and questions! Edgar Hauster (bconcept@hotmail.com)