Friday, May 7, 2010

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Mohyliv-Podilskyi, the ghetto and the dead

(Mohyliv-Podilskyi, 4:05:10 to 7:05:10) Mohyliv-Podilskyi is an almost totally unknown town in Ukraine. Only Effort to find some scant information on the web. difficult to understand because Mohyliv-Podilskyi with its 36,000 inhabitants, after all, a city that - has a significant role in the Holocaust of Romanian Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina played - a historical perspective. If you drive by Czernowitz after Mohyliv-Podilskyi, cross zunächt the Dnister is and will be in Transnistria ; meant is that of Romania in World War II annexed territory, and not Transnistria that is not internationally recognized State East Moldova .


You can tell that this was once the boundary line between Greater Romania and the Soviet Union . At strategic points can be discovered again and again defenses.


On the four-hour ride for about 200 kilometers over holey streets you come across a golden Lenin , but can see at once dilapidated former model socialist cooperatives.


Mohyliv-Podilskyi, city on the Dniester river, opposite the Moldavian Otaci , former Ataki, shining in the sun.


Here in the heart of the city, is also the Jewish community of Mohyliv-Podilskyi which, under the leadership of its unusually dedicated chairman Leonid Brechman , community life organized. The community has a synagogue and a small but very interesting museum. Here we meet the 88-year-old Srul Lichtman, despite the ghetto, forced labor and persecution, his sense of humor has not lost.


people like him to be written by the German pension insurance bureaucrats-German and English (?) To inform them that any pension benefits for former ghetto inmates in order of birth cohorts be processed and they may therefore be patient and await further news. The only question is what comes first, the pension granted or death!


video clip (1'38 "): Srul light guy singing Russian and Yiddish Songs.

Srul Lichtman is one of the 279 Jews who live in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, 54 of which have survived the ghetto. Before the war there were 9000 Jews who survived of which only about a third of the Holocaust. Together with tens of thousands who were from all over Bessarabia and Bukovina were deported over the bottleneck Mohyliv-Podilskyi to Transnistria, they huddled together on an area of half a square kilometer. Many of them died after a short time, of which the cemetery Mohyliv-Podilskyi testimony. It covers an area of 17 hectares may be substantially larger than the Jewish cemetery in Chernovtsy , the former capital of Bukovina.


However, these poor people be happy when they still had some belongings bribe to the Romanian authorities and thus remain in Mohyliv-Podilskyi can, the rest were on grueling marches sent into the hinterland, where they had no livelihood and have perished miserably of hunger, cold and disease. Some march ended, however, only a few kilometers outside the city, where people robbed, shot and buried in mass graves. The historian from Valeri Voitovici Mohyliv-Podilskyi said to have discovered such a grave.


And indeed, we visit the area from the air and on the ground, it is striking that here but grass is not growing, although it has been several attempts to cultivate this land . A witness, who was ten years old, reports that the shootings by German and Romanian troops for a whole day to have taken place throughout. Valeri Voitovici estimates that up to 25,000 people killed here and buried in this mass grave was. The excavations are within a few days, beginning after the day after Liberation Day held here.


ages of Mohyliv-Podilskyi already rehearsing for the celebrations, which are here in every village, celebrated in every town. They are men like that have a decorated veteran who is preparing an end to the Hitler fascism and saved many people from certain death. The Ghetto Mohyliv-Podilskyi should be liquidated on 3/22/1944, was but three days earlier, on 03/19/1944, freed by Soviet troops.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

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Anything new in Rădăuţi? (2,130 km)

(Rădăuţi, 2:05:10 to 04:05:10) Not much in the last few months, a generous round, in the same four angel musicians on the market rules, and - in a sign of tolerance - balanced traffic information signs.


that all? - Nothing else! Then it goes on to Mohyliv-Podilskyi in Transnistria , then there is certainly more to report.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

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Four gray houses (Rohatyn - 1851 km)

(Rohatyn, 01:05:10 to 02:05:10) Rohatyn, a small city in western Ukraine , is the product of the place from which my ancestors. Through the cruel fate that they suffered during the Holocaust, I have in my Rohatyn Blog reported. At the request of 80 members strong Rohatyn Group , I have photographed about 500 homes in Rohatyn, these are just four of them:


Whether my relatives may have lived in one of these homes? I'll probably never know, for the extermination of the Jews of Rohatyn was systematic and almost completely, only one has survived a hundred of these people, the others were brutally murdered on the spot or in the extermination camp Belzec . Rosette Faust Halpern, one of the few survivors, schrieb am 01.05.10, am gleichen Tag, als ich in Rohatyn war, folgende Zeilen:

"I was deeply touched with the welcome messages expressed in the internet. Humbly, it was I who likes to welcome all of you. The second and third generation, the longtime born in Rohatyn, and the spouses that take interest in preserving the memory of the victims. Sunday Dec 9, 1962, a meeting was held at the Hotel Diplomat in New York. The first book was printed requesting every survivor to recount their ordeal of survival. Unfortunately, some of the survivors were facing recent tragedies and could not contribute to the book. 'Stand up and be a witness!', shouted my brother Jack. I stood up at the meeting and this is what I said.
It is a great privilege for me to witness and partake in a Yiskor meeting for the Rohatyn ghetto. I was in the ghetto all of the time from the beginning until the end. Twenty years ago, I wouldn't dare to believe that I, one of the most hunted and hated of human beings, was still alive. Surrounded by ruthless murderers helped by local enemies, imprisoned in a crowded closed up ghetto, degradation and humiliation, plagued by hunger and epidemics, life without hope.. These were the conditions of our miserable existence. What could one wish in these conditions? After three actions March 20, 1942, Yom Kippur 1942, and December 8, 1942, the last most unhumane massacre occurred on June 6, 1943 with the liquidation of the ghetto in Rohatyn. Scattered mass graves, this is what was left of ones life in beautiful Rohatyn. Only one wish and last prayer was common to all these victims, that one day their names and silent struggle will be remembered. Their last message was DO NOT FORGET! It is evident that their last wish was granted by the formation of this group. We have not forgotten. "

Saturday, May 1, 2010

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The grandson of Fritz and Franz Bardach Kaminski? (L'viv - 1754 km)

(Lviv, 30.04.10 - 01.05.10) This item is on 04/07/1932 in the daily " published the day "from Czernowitz. From the records of my father and my grandfather I knew that now Fritz Bardach, my cousin 2, "at war with the property laws stand. I'm sure the ultimate proof!


It's true that I've been here for years on the trail of Fritz Bardach, however, that I while its (current) colleagues would come so close, then I have not yet desired. What happened? arrived in L'viv soon, the former Lemberg, was stolen by two pickpockets my iPhone . Unlike in 1932, was neither a secret agent or a security guard on the spot and I could not, the clever thieves, real "old hands in their times" to ask. Was it at the end nor the grandson of Fritz and Franz Bardach Kaminski? If so, would iPhone after all in the family, a little comfort!