Re: [Cz-L] A forgotten writer

Hi
 As it happens - both - Shaye Trachtenberg, and Jakob (Kubi) Klein were
friends of my late father - Oscar (Ezra) Wolf. My father in his younger days
was a sportsman. He played football with Maccabi Czernowitz, and was a
renown good ice skate dancer. He belonged also to what you may call in
today's terms the "jet set" of Czernowitz of which Kubi was one of the
central figures. Later my father transferred his social activities to the
executive of the Macabbi movement of Bucovina, and Bessarabia (he held an
executive position in a poultry processing plant in Novoselitsa). Among his
activities in Macabbi he organized the teams which were sent to Palestine to
take part in the "Macabbya"s competitions (which made it possible for young
people to evade the British ban of Jewish immigration). Within the framework
of this activity my father met Shaye who was active in Macabbi of Lipcani
(Lipcani isn't far from Novoselitsa), and helped him join the "team" for the
Macabbya. Eventually Shaye like others remained in Palestine. Hardy told
part of his story. After we fled the Soviets in the last day of 1944, we
settled in Bucharest. One day in the end of 1946 my father was met on the
street by Shaye. It was an emotional meeting (Most of Shaye's family was
lost in the Holocaust). Shaye told later my father that he plans an action
to ship 15000 Jews to Palestine on two ships which he succeeded to buy in
the USA and asked my father to join his team. It was complicated. What they
did was organizing groups of people who registered for shipment in various
locations mainly in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria. The story of the two ships -
Pan York ("Atzmaut"), and Pan Crescent ("Kibutz Galuyot") is a story for
itself. Anyway, the action to coordinate all the groups, to hire special
trains, and to bring all those people on time to the Burgas port in
Bulgaria, to arrange the boarding, set sail towards Palestine, be captured
by 27 British war ships, to be imprisoned in Cyprus was only one of the
operations (there are some which till this day can not be revealed)
organized by this man. After arriving to Israel from Cyprus (camp 63) we
kept contact with Shaye - which wasn't often because he was constantly on
the move - till my parents were too old.
As for Kubi. When we arrived in Israel we were put in the "Beyt Olim" of
Nathanya (a military camp which the British abandoned a few weeks before
that). The first months were not easy because the war of independence was
still going on. But in 1949 with the war over, my father passes a Coffee
Shop when somebody calls out his name. He looks around and sees an old man
who sits on a chair in front of the Coffee Shop waving. It was Kubi who came
to Palestine during WW2. At his age in those times he still led the same
life style as in the old times in Czernowitz. His health was failing, and he
started writing this large book, which is a combination of fiction and
reality. He moved later to a house for elderly. The book was a big success.
After that he wrote 2 or 3 books which didn't succeed as well as the first
one, and after some time died. Because my parents moved to Haifa before he
published his book they lost contact with him at the end of his life.
Nevertheless, everybody who knew him in the old days remembers him as
central figure of the flashy life style of Czernowitz in the 20ties and
30ties of the last century.
 Yosef Eshet

----- Original Message -----
From: "Berti Glaubach" <berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>
To: "Christian Herrmann" <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>
Cc: "Czernowitz Mailing-Liste" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] A forgotten writer

Hallo Christian,

Jakob Klein was the father of Peter who was a friend and neighbor in
1944/5. We were a sort of foursome with him, Bobby Schreiber (of our
list) and one Jack (Schwarzmann) all living around the corner
Albertinen/Gregorgasse.

Peter died very young in Israel a short time after he came here. I
don't know exactly how , was only told that it happened in connection
with the war of independence 1948/9.
I tried to read the book and must agree fully with the Spiegel revue.
It is difficult to
go through it completely, although interesting .

You can find a lot of announcements in "Der Tag" by Mr. Klein for a
kind of bar/restaurant he had in the Landhausgasse for some time. He
was also a journalist and Reitschullehrer (riding instructor near Tel
Aviv, therefore the Parasch annex to his original name. He loved
horses. I never met him (or his wife) in Israel and only heard from
relatives about the difficult time they had after the death of their
only son.
Berti.

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