Re: RE: [Cz-L] FW:Prof. Zwi Yaavets Passed away - My former schoolmate and our "Mister Czernowitz"

Thanks Irene for this further information.

A good friend of ours, now Mrs. Chava Bloch, came with the Viitorul, so her parents probably knew your cousin. She herself was too young at the time. I do not the name of the boat my aunt and Prof. Yaavetz came - too late to find out.

Regards

Mordecai

----- Original Message -----
From: Irene Fishler <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 2:37
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] FW:Prof. Zwi Yaavets Passed away - My former schoolmate and our "Mister Czernowitz"
To: lapidotm_at_inter.net.il
Cc: 'Miriam Taylor' <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, 'Abraham Kogan' <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>, Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu

> Shalom Mordecai,
>
> Thanks for your great story.
>
> Marcel Enzer had a similar experience with the ship
> "Viitorul" . I cannot
> remember the name of the ship on which Zwi Yavetz ( Harry
> Zucker) left
> Romania some time later.
>
> Of course they were hungry boys !
>
> Harry was 17 and Marcel 20 years old , and on their own.
>
> I don't know what their legal status was, but they were
> relatively free
> people , living in a hotel in the mountains.
>
> In those years there were no detention camps for illegal
> emigrants in
> Cyprus,
>
> Their job was to be "madrichim" to the younger children.
> Zwi Yavetz told
> that he liked to go to the coffee-houses in the village and play
> shesh-besh
> with the locals.
>
> Their dream was to go to Eretz Israel and study at the Jerusalem
> University.
>
> As far as I remember they both managed to convince the
> authorities that they
> are wasting precious time in Cyprus and they received an
> approval to go and
> learn at the University in Beirut.
>
> They left Cyprus together and went straight to
> Israel (how, through
> Syria?). In December 1943 they were already here and
> started soon their
> studies at the University.
>
> As I said I'm sorry that in his last years I could not visit him
> and ask
> some questions about those adventures.
>
> Best wishes,
> Irene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lapidotm_at_inter.net.il [mailto:lapidotm_at_inter.net.il]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 11:24 PM
> To: Irene Fishler
> Cc: 'Miriam Taylor'; 'Abraham Kogan'; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: RE: [Cz-L] FW:Prof. Zwi Yaavets Passed away - My former
> schoolmate and our "Mister Czernowitz"
>
> It is indeed quite a loss, but for Prof. Yaavetz it was a deliverance
> because in his last period he was quite lost. He was a great man
> and was
> perhaps the pioneer of the establishment of the Tel-Aviv
> University and
> quite a fighter and fund raiser for it and for his department,
>
> A little story about him - apropos the comment of Irene re his
> period in
> Cyprus.
>
> In 1942 several Jews from Czernowitz, together with some others -
> I suppose
> from Bucharest - were able to purchase a Danube boat from some
> Romanian,fitted it with some food and other basics and, I do not
> how they managed it,
> were able to leave Czernowitz and board the boat in Constanta
> with thei
> families. and leave Constanta..I have the story from my late
> aunt, Mrs.
> Regina Grossman.
>
> They encountered a heavy storm in the Black Sea on the way towards
> Constantinopole, the motors failed or drew sea water, and the
> mechanic of
> the boat was dead drunk. Luckily my uncle, Leon, who was a highly
> experienced mechanical meister (he owned and operated a textile
> factory in
> Czernowitz) took charge and was able to get the motors working,
> but they
> struck a shoal , luckily at the Northern part of Turkey. Their
> the Turks
> imprisoned them, and only thanks to a lot of efforts by the
> Jewish Agency
> delegates in Constantinople, who negotiated with the British and
> Turkishauthorities, were they not returmed ot Romania but were
> interned for the
> rest of the war in Cyprus.
>
> My aunt remembered well the adolescent Zvi (I believe she
> remembered him as
> Hershel or something like this, who was with them on that boat
> and later in
> Cyprus. Thanks to her husband's experience, he was able to
> establish a home
> loom wool spinning industry in Cyrpus, the local peasant women
> processingthe wool from the sheep and goats, and thus was able
> to provide cloth to the
> local economy, since they could not obtain it from Britain, cut
> off by the
> German and Italian U-boats in the Mediterranean. Thanks to this
> contributionto the local economy and population, they became the
> protegee of the
> Commissioner, obtained a villa in Nicosia. and were somewhat
> food-affluent -
> taking into consideration that Cyprus was in a wartime Austerity
> regime. Zvi
> was a hungry and active adolescent and therefore she used to
> prepare for him
> daily lots of sandwiches. and he used to come to their kitchen
> and devour
> them without leaving a trace.
>
> I suppose your late cousin, Mr Enzer also was on that boat and
> later with
> them In Cyprus.
>
> Laila Tov
>
> Mordecai
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