Re: [Cz-L] Migration to Romania, 1944-1946

Mimi, I am so grateful you spell out for me the numbers, before, send to Transnistria, came back and left in 1945 to Rumania. I am, or was one of those in each category.
Thanks,
Felix

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On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

> Dear Iosif,
>
> I admit my ignorance of the two papers you mention. When I have time,
> I will read the paper by Mordechai Altshuler.
>
> What I wrote in my previous Email referred only to the "old-time Jewish
> residents of Chernivtsi" and I still believe that for this group they are close
> to the actual numbers.
> You refer to the number of Jews in the Czernowitz REGION, irrespective
> of whether they were residents of Czernowitz before the war.
> When people were free to return from Transnistria, most of them,
> whether previous residents of Czernowitz or not, came to Czernowitz,
> where they still had relatives and where they felt safer.
> Jewish refugees from Besarabia and families of Russian Jewish soldiers
> also started arriving in Czernowitz by May or June 1944.
> This explains the difference between the numbers you and I mention.
>
> We know that the Jewish population of Czernowitz before the war,
> numbered about 50 000. It is generally agreed that of these, some
> were sent to Siberia by the Russians, retreated with the Russian army,
> or were killed by Romanian and German soldiers.
> About 27 000 were deported to Transnistria. Of the deported,
> only about 50% - 60% survived and returned to Czernowitz.
> About 20 000 Jewish residents were not deported and remained in the city.
> Few if any children were born to Jewish families during the war, while
> the natural death rate continued as normal. In the spring of 1944
> it is likely that there were in Czernowitz 19 000 Jewish people.
> Add to this, the number of returnees and it is likely, that of the original
> Jewish population of Czernowitz, there were in the city in July 1944
> about 34 000 people.
> A few hundred were immediately conscripted into the Russian army
> and sent to the front. Many of these were killed when the train
> they were on was bombed by German forces.
> We can assume that during the winter of 1944 - 1945
> about 1000 crossed the border illegally.
> The number of those who left legally in 1945 was about 12 000.
> The number of those who left legally in 1946, was about 11 000.
> Former Jewish residents of Czernowitz, who remained in the city
> after 1946, was about 10 000.
>
> Mimi

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