Category Archives: Memoirs

SEARCHING FOR LOST MEMORIES

Hello all,In 2008, my father, sister and I went to Moldova to search for our Jewish roots, as my paternal grandparents were born there. During the trip, we shot a documentary about our search for relatives who disappeared in the Holocaust, their lost graves, the history of Bessarabian Jews and immigrants who then moved to the US, Canada, Israel and South America.
We’ve been working passionately on this project for the last 3 years. The film is almost done and very little is needed for it to become a reality.
We have a campaign on IndieGoGo, where you can find updates, film footage, pictures and much more:

www.indiegogo.com/Mamaliga-Blues

Please help us rescue a little bit of History in this region by contributing and/or spreading the word. If you wish, please “like” our page on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/mamaligablues

Sincerely,
Cassio Tolpolar
Mamaliga Blues

Learning about the past to understand the present and have some perspective on the future.

Unveiling Ceremony for Eliezer Steinbarg’s Funerary Monument on 08.10.1933

It is sad, children, in this wide giant world.It is bitter! Let’s at least enjoy a fable!

Moshe Altmann Memorial Plate on 23, Kobylanska Street (Herrengasse)

History Museum of the Romanian Jews, Bucharest

Links: Eliezer Steinbarg, Arthur Kolnik, Barbu Lazareanu, Jacob Sternberg, Moshe Altmann, Dr. Shlomo Bickel, Leib Malach

Photos: Courtesy of Edgar Hauster, Irene Fishler, Lydia Schmerler, Sergij Osatschuk, Iosif Vaisman

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

Mr. Landmann, an Intellectual from Czernowitz!

Inscription: Landmann, intellectual from Czernowitz, 36 years old, died of hunger and cold on the road Moghilev – Scazinetz, 04.01.1942.
Artist: Erwin Schäfler, born in Vienna, left Austria for Romania in 1937, escaped to Ukraine in 1940, joined the Red Army, served on campaigns, returned to Transylvania in 1946, emigrated to Israel in 1958 and deceased in the year 1965.

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In the Orphanage of Moghilev, March 1943

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Atachi, November 1941

Links:
http://david.juden.at/kulturzeitschrift/66-70/66-Stephani.htm
http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib37039

Richtige Czernowitzer

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