Re: [Cz-L] Bricha

The Carei Mare crossing.
Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Abraham Kogan" <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "'cornel fleming'" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>;
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:43 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Bricha

> Dear Cornel and friends,
>
> The story of the "Bricha" is not so simple, as you think. I was active
> there in 1946, while my parents lived in Oradea Mare (Grosswardein), not
> far
> away from the border between Romania and Hungary. The border was quite
> closed but people managed somehow to get through. It was organized by the
> Aliyah Bet institution "Hamossad Lealiyah Bet), jointly operated by
> members
> of the Haganah and Palyam. They were active all over Europe looking for
> Jews
> interested to emigrate to Palestine, smuggled them across countries and
> borders and bring them to small ships scattered along the coasts of Italy
> or
> Yugoslavia. Some of those so-called illegal ships managed to get to
> Palestine, in some cases they were caught by the British navy and brought
> to
> Cyprus.
>
> Abraham K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-75430853-3499314_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-75430853-3499314_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of cornel
> fleming
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 3:27 PM
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: [Cz-L] Bricha
>
> Hi all! The discussion re the Bricha (means escape), and knowing that my
> uncle Erich Neuberger was deeply involved ,got me to look it up on
> Wikipedia.Says there that some Polish guys decided that there was no
> future
> there(late 44 early 45).They formed a "guild" to cover their
> activities...and sent a group to Czernowitz to seek out escape routes!!!
> So
> now I know...Czernowitzers were involved,as uasual!!!! Cornel
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