Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

The debate over who suffered more; Romanian Jews or Polish,
Ukrainian and Hungarian Jews, is an old debate and a very ugly one.
Each individual person who suffered because of the Holocaust,
even though aware of the calamity which had befallen all European Jews,
experienced his or her suffering individually;
A Hungarian Jewish mother whose children were gassed in Auschwitz
and a Bukovina Jewish mother whose children died of hunger or frostbite,
both suffered terribly. Nothing to debate or discuss.

It is a fact, that in some countries a greater or lesser percentage
of the Jewish population survived. The Germans, in their own country
and in all the territories they conquered, had exact plans as to what
to do
with their Jewish population, almost from the start.
German Austrian and Check Jews were sent to death camps or work camps,
which eventually, also became death camps. In the countries and
territories
they conquered, they initially practiced "death by bullets" - Mass
shooting
of the Jewish population. When they realized that death by bullets
was inefficient,
they shipped the Jewish population to the death-camps. Old people,
children
and their mothers were killed immediately, young healthy men and women
were used as slave labor and often managed to survive.

The Romanians had no detailed plans as to what to do with the Jews
they deported to the newly conquered part of Ukraine, called
Transnistria,
which extended east of Romania, into Ukraine up to the river Bug.
They just wanted to get rid of them. That is why, they established few
organized camps and no organized mass killings in Transnistria.
That is why most Bucovina Jews, who were deported and died in
Transnistria,
died on the forced marches to Transnistria, or perished there from
hunger,
cold and disease.
The territory east of the Bug had been conquered by German forces
and was under their rule.
Some of the Romanian soldiers were squeamish about killing Jews,
that is why they handed the old, or infirm or rebellious Jews over
to the Germans on the other side of the Bug, where they were executed,
either by shooting or by hanging.

Three of my relatives were murdered on the eastern side of the Bug;
a great aunt Hana Wisnitzer and her daughter Rifka, by shooting.
And a cousin of my mother, Itzik Fruchter was hanged.
A German officer also wanted to murder his three children
and came looking for them in the camp, but the oldest daughter,
then about 14 years old managed to hide herself and her siblings
inside rucksacks and thus escaped death.
To the best of my knowledge, they are all still alive and have children,
grandchildren and probably great-grandchildren.

Mimi

On Feb 3, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Jacob Greenberg wrote:

> My mother told me that their worst fear was to be guarded by German
> soldiers. In fact, those members of her family who ended up with
> Germans taking control did not survive.
>
> That's what she told me. Anecdotal evidence, no facts.
>
> Serah Kraft
>

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