Re: [Cz-L] Elias Weinstein, Eyewitness of the Holocaust

Firstly, a big "thank you" to all who were involved in bringing this
document to our attention.

Hardy,

You are a very wise and a very knowledgeable man. That was is a very good
and precise political analysis of the situation as it was in 1945.
All I said was that I felt a great appreciation for Elias Weinstein's
attempt to save some innocent souls.
My other thought was to describe the terrible tragedy of my grandfather's
untimely death and the suffering of a helpless young woman and her 2
children. Speaking German and European-style education did not go well with
a savage environment my grandmother, my father and my auntie had live in for
8 years.

Hedwig,

According to my mother, Dr Ada Kraft (my other side of the family), who
lives in Givataim, Israel, her family was deported from Czernowitz to
Trasnistria in cattle carriages train in September-October 1941. She doesn't
like to talk about it, but I can ask her about the an exact date.

That means that Jews were deported before the ghetto was established.

Ilana,

Sometimes in the 60s my father, Oscar Kraft, was able to obtain all the
details about my grandfather's imprisonment, including a terrible prison
photo, the only photo of him we have as they were taken to Siberia (in
carriages) in 1941 almost empty-handed, leaving all their possessions
(including all photographs) behind. Unfortunately, I was too young to find
out how was this information obtained. All I remember, that his was
obsessively writing letters and meeting people. In addition, we still lived
there and he was a very influential and pro-active man. I can ask my cousin
who still lives in Chernivtsi but now Siberia is in a different country....

Serah Kraft-Greenberg

----- Original Message -----
From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>; "Czernowitz Discussion Group"
<czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Cc: "Peter Elbau" <peter_at_elbau.net>; "Jerome Schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>;
"Harry Jarvis" <hjarvis16_at_aol.com>; "Berti Glaubach"
<berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>; "Serah Kraft-Greenberg"
<grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; "Ilana Gordon" <ilana_at_wordwizardsinc.com>;
"Yosef Eshet" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Elias Weinstein, Eyewitness of the Holocaust

> The Weinstein petition.
> The date is June 1945 ,Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine.
> The war in Europe is just one month over .
> This was the bloodiest war in history so far.
> Europe is in ashes, the Russians alone lost 20 million people.
> Still looking for bodies in the rubbles of Berlin.
> The winners plan for a meeting in Potsdam on how to divide Europe.
> Western nations fear for a Soviet invasion of the rest of Europe.
>
> In the Jerusalem High Commissioner Palace the daily post
> delivers a letter from one Elias Weinstein , Jewish .
> The secretery who usually reads petitions, complaints ,suggestions
> cannot find her bearings.
> Czernowitz, Bukovina ,Ukraina dont mean much to her.
> She is from the Midlands somewhere near Worcester.
> " 2000 Jews deported to Siberia , wrongly, since 1940,
> small business owners , 4 years now ."
> She thinks : What do they want - Churchill should speak with Stalin
> on this matter before or after they divide Europe ?
> 2000 wrongly deported Jews from - how do they call this place ?
> She will present it to the boss.
>
> Hardy
>
> Czernowitzers...
>
> Just three small remarks in addition to my own posting earlier today:
>
> 1. "Die Stimme" is wrong concerning the Czernowitz Ghetto; it started not
> on
> 11.10.1940, but on 12.10.1941.
>
> 2. "Die Stimme" is wrong - as Peter discovered - concerning Elias
> Weinstein's place of birth; it's not Sereth, but Kamenka.
>
> 3. Beside the report on Elias Weinstein's aliyah, the Jewish Telegraphic
> Agency reports (April 24, 1944) in the same context on the aliyah of two
> prominent rabbis, the Munkaczer Rebbe and "our" Bukovinian Wisznitzer
> Rebbe.
>
> Warmest wishes to all of you and thank you so much for your mails and
> comments, which are all so meaningful!
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
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