Re: [Cz-L] An infamous Czernowitzer

Dear Christian,

Please write to the German Wikipedia and tell them not to insult
the City of Czernowitz and all us Czernowitzers. I looked at
the address-books for Czernowitz: In 1898 there were no Ginsburg,
Ginzburg or Ginsberg in Czernowitz. In 1909, there were no Ginsburg
and no Ginzburg, but there were 3 Ginsberg. If anyone of them
would have shortened his name, he would have shortened it to "Berg".
In 1914 there are two of the three Ginsberg left, but no Ginsburg.

If a Josef Ginsburg was born in Czernowitz in 1908, he must have
been born to a woman who happened to be passing through the city.
As to his later activities - supposedly, Torquemada was also Jewish.

Mimi

On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:48 AM, Christian Herrmann wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Yosef Eshet and I had a nice private exchange of mails speculating
> a bit on the origin of the family name Ginzburg. I checked the
> German Wikipedia and stumbled over an entry on J. G. Burg, born in
> 1908 as Josef Ginsburg in Czernowitz. Ginsburg was deported in 1941
> to Transnistria. After the war he moved to Munich where his wife
> opened a kosher restaurant. In 1949 the Ginsburg family settled
> down in Israel but returned to Munich in 1950.
>
> Ginsburg was a listener in the Nuremberg Trials and came to the
> conclusion that there was complicity of the Western Allies and the
> Zionist movement that enabled the Holocaust. Since the early 60s
> Ginsburg published anti-Zionist pamphlets in magazines of the
> German neo-Nazi movement and appeared as a defense witness in
> trials against war criminals and holocaust deniers. Untill today
> his writings are praised by right-wing extremists and give them a
> chance to blame others for the holocaust. Most of Ginsburg's books
> were confiscated by the police but still circulate as vintage copies.
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Burg
>
> Does it teach something about Czernowitz? I don't think so. We knew
> before that Czernowitz was not Camelot - to quote a list member -
> and not every Czernowitzer was a saint. Does it teach something
> about the human nature? No, we already knew there is a wide range
> of misguided characters in the world.
>
> Christian
>

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