Re: [Cz-L] Bricha

Dear Abraham and list members,

In 1946 it was still possible to travel to Hungary from Oradea Mare.
One of my relatives, a survivor of Mathausen, often went to Debrecen
in Hungary to buy provisions for the Soviet administrators stationed
in Oradea Mare. Occasionally my father went with him, even though
he was not authorized to do so.

The same relatives also managed to get out of Romania in 1947,
by bribing the officials who were in charge of granting such permits.

The Jewish agency also organized in Sept. 1947 a transport of
500 children from Romania, who were sent to Holland because
the British would not allow them to immigrate to Palestine and because
it was becoming clear that Romania soon would close its borders,
to prevent people leaving the "Communist Paradise".

I was one of the 500 children. There were no other Czernowitz children
among us, but plenty children from the Bukowina, mostly from Dorna
Vatra.
Interesting how we stuck together, the older children taking care
of the younger ones.

Abraham, you and my parents were together either on the Pan York
or the Pan Crescent, which tried to get to Palestine in December of
1947,
were caught by the British and held captive in Cyprus.
There must have been quite a number of Czernowitzers at the camp
(near Famagusta?) in which you were held. I have photographs
taken there and my father wrote the names of the people photographed
on the back. Many names have the prefix "Frau" or Herr", from which
I assume that they were Czernowitzers.

Mimi

On Feb 26, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Abraham Kogan wrote:

> 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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