Re: [Cz-L] The Elias Weinstein Petition

[Plain text please --thanks]

I am most interested in this document and how it would relate to finding
out information about my grandfather who was deported in 1944 to Siberia. I
was able to obtain his arrest records from the SBU records in Czernowitz
when we were there in 2009. With help from Vadim Altscan from the NHM we
obtained and translated all arrest records but was never able to get an
answer about which prison he was sent to.

He miraculously smuggled 2 letters to my mother and grandmother in 1951
written from Petropovosk in Siberia to Bucharest and the letters ultimately
found their way to Mom and Grandma in Israel via a friend. We know he died
shortly thereafter but because we never knew which prison he was in do not
know where he is buried. Vadim was astounded that someone would have taken
the risk to smuggle these letters that were written in German because if
found it would have meant imminent arrest and possibly execution.

If anyone has any information or advise as to how to find this final piece
of information please let me know. It would be closure to my mother after
all these years. She just turned 89.

Ilana Gordon

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Czernowitzers...
>
> It was our fellow member Peter Elbau, who drew my attention to an
> outstanding document from October 1945, which Peter purchased by auction.
> The Government of Palestine was rejecting a petition adressed by Dr. Elias
> Weinstein, the former editor of the Czernowitzer Morgenblatt AND the
> co-founder of "Die Stimme",
>
> "on the subject of alleged deportation to Siberia by the Soviet
> authorities of inhabitants of the Bukovina"
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and both, Peter and I stumbeled over the term "alleged" in 1945, four
> years after the deportation took place?! It's quite clear, that this
> stirred up our curiosity and - thanks to Peter's research and Irene's hint
> - I succeeded to obtain "The Elias Weinstein Petition" by special courtesy
> of Galia Weisman from the Israel State Archives.
>
> http://ehpes.com/blog1/2013/01/11/the-elias-weinstein-petition/
>
> Now, being in the possession of both, the petition and it's rejection, we
> are able to reconstruct Dr. Elias Weinstein's desperate effort to avoid
> that the deportees were abandoned, the crimes falling into oblivion.
>
> More on Dr. Elias Weinstein, this very prominent Bukovinian, and on the
> deportation from Bukovina to Siberia and Kazakhstan will be released at our
> - redesigned - ehpes.com Blog
>
> http://ehpes.com/blog1/
>
> quite soon! We are going to prove - once more - that the deportation was
> definitely not "alleged"! Enjoy the coverage and don't hesitate to submit
> your comments!
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
>
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