Re: [Cz-L] 1919 historical documents in German

I share your opinion about it being a marketing campaign.
Yossi

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From: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
To: "Jerome Schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>; "Alex Denisenko"
<tuagtuag_at_gmail.com>
Cc: "Czernowitz Discussion Group" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 8:26 PM
Subject: RE: 1919 historical documents in German

Alex and Jerome...

That's an outstanding find, thank you both for sharing it with us. By three
letters, dated August/September 1919, the "Central Exchange & Ticket Agency"
and the "American Express Company" are requesting the Czernowitz Jewish
Community to publish an appeal to the defaulting Jewish population in the
local press, designed to motivate them to ask their relatives overseas for
financial aid. The agencies committed themselves to distribute the letters
of request free of charge, to collect the aid money and to allocate it via
the Czernowitz Jewish Community. I'm afraid, what looks at a first glance
like a humanitarian action, is in fact rather a marketing campaign for
international money orders (including the transfer fees).

Bearing the receipt stamp of the Czernowitz Jewish Community, I assume these
three letters came from their archives. BTW, impressive letterheads! In my
opinion, they are not founding a story (yet) for the Ehpes "Stories,
Histories, Documents" section, unless we would locate the correspondence
between both seafronts of the Atlantic Ocean. From the third letter, dated
01.09.1919 we learn about a humanitarian organization:

Sadogorer Relief
New York, 130 2nd Street, USA
President: Sol. Granirer
Secretary: S. Talesman

I'll check the contemporary Czernowitzer press from August/September 1919
looking for a possible reaction from the Czernowitz Jewish Community!

Warmest wishes to both of you!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> Subject: 1919 historical documents in German
> From: romers_at_shaw.ca
> To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> CC: tuagtuag_at_gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 22:05:42 -0800
>
> Czernowitzers/Sadagorians/others...
>
> In an email this week, List member Alex Denisenko sent along eight pages
> of scans of 1919 documents in German that he thought may be of interest
> to the group. I made a pdf of them and put it on the blog along with
> some details and Alex's original email. All the details at:
>
> http://ehpes.com/blog1/2013/02/02/1919-historical-documents-in-german/
>
> Best,
> jerome

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