Re: [Cz-L] A forgotten writer

Dear Yosi,
Your mention of Lipcani caught my eye. My two Israeli cousins and I (and our 3 spouses) will be doing a "roots" trip in two weeks to the birthplace and growing up place of our fathers. They came from Khorjevouts (now Corjeuti), near Lipcani, then in Russia and now in Moldava. In fact my father's visa to the US in 1920 said he was from Lipcani. We had many relatives (Schachter, Sehter, Vainrober, Fichman) who lived in Lipcani.

Do you have any information about it today, or anyone who is around there or in Czernowitz to provide insights and/or guidance to Corjeuti and Lipcani?

Thank you for whatever information or help you can provide.
Edward Roberts

On Feb 27, 2013, at 4:59 PM, yosi-jerry wrote:

> 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
>
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