Re: [Cz-L] request Information - Chernovich ghetto

The Mayor's name was Dr. Traian Popovici and not Dori Popovici. Regarding
the "dismantling of the Ghetto" - I was there until late 1944 - : Formally,
there was no announcement or official order for dismantling the Ghetto.
What actually happened was: the Romanian authorities removed the fences
around the Ghetto area and allowed people to return to their
apartments/houses and imposed a series of instructions regarding the hours
Jews were not allowed to be on the streets (in the whole city) and made it
compulsory to always wear the yellow Magen David star on the chest. The
Popovici Papers/Authorizations were issued at a much later date, but I do
not remember the exact date. Perhaps, my good old friend Fred Schneider
could clarify this.
Best regards to all my fellow Czernowitzers,
Avraham Kogan
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> My mother, Pearl Fichman, dated the start of the Czernowitz ghetto as
> October 11, in her memoirs Before Memories Fade (p. 77), "On Simchat
> Torah, October
> 11, 1941, on a cold, windy Saturday morning, there appeared notices") as
> does The Holocaust in Romania by Radu Ioanid (pp. 130, 141). General
> Calotescu
> issued the local order on October 10 (Ioanid, p. 156). According, again,
> to my
> mother's memoirs, Calotescu was following orders from Berlin, orders she
> saw
> displayed at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam (p. 77).
>
> I believe my mother's writing indicates the ghetto was dismantled upon
> the
> issue of the 'Popovici papers', but she does not give a date. "The Mayor,
> Dori
> Popovici, a decent man, who had lived all his life in Czernowitz and was
> friendly toward the Jewish population, got the consent from Bucharest to
> dismantle the Ghetto and everybody to receive a permit signed by him" (p.
> 81). I
> think the Popovici papers were issued near the end of November, 1941,
> (based on
> looking at Mimi Taylor's November 27, 1941 family documents posted at
> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/ (accessed 01.14.2007) and considering my
> mother's
> account.
>
> I know there are better informed historians than me on this list, so
> hopefully they will answer more fully and correct any of my mistakes.
>
> Eytan Fichman

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