Dear Eytan, Thank you for your feedback and the earlier responses, which encourage me to continue reading “Die Stimme” and share it in excerpts with all of you.
It is also fascinating that the obituary of Traian Popovici starts with a quote from Golda Meierson, who said in an exposé to an association of journalists that “the Jews have no friends among the peoples”. In the further text Traian Popovici is referred to as counterevidence and it was only when I re-read it today that I realized that Golda Meierson was none other than Golda Meir. Warmest wishes as always! Edgar Hauster [MacBook] ________________________________________ From: fichb...@aol.com <fichb...@aol.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 16:42 To: Czernowitz Discussion Group; Edgar Hauster Subject: Re: [czernowitz-l] In 1946 in "Die Stimme" [The Voice]: DR. TRAIAN POPOVICI Thank you for sharing this, It reminds me of the many times my late mother, Pearl Spiegel Fichman, spoke admiringly of Traian Popovici in telling the story of living, with her parents, to be survivors of the ordeals of the the war, the ghetto, and (evading) the transport to Transnistria. Eytan Fichman B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M. 42 / 11 Trần Bình Trọng, Ngô Quyền, Hải Phòng Việt Nam On Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 09:51:24 PM GMT+7, Edgar Hauster <bconc...@hotmail.com> wrote: Czernowitzers... A new edition of “Die Stimme”, the monthly Newsletter for the Bukovinians, was published on 01-JUN-1946. Let's take a journey into the past together to comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back then! In an obituary of DR. TRAIAN POPOVICI, the former Mayor of Czernowitz, who went down in history as the Righteous Among the Nations, we read about the hidden activities in his law office: “This office was subsequently the refuge of the political commission of the illegal Zionist Organization on days when serious measures threatened our brothers and us. Here we made our secret plans aimed at establishing a connection with Jerusalem, from here we made attempts to inform the Red Cross and the Vatican about our situation, with the Catholic prelate effectively assisting us. Here, together with Ing. Wronsky and Eisenberg, the leading members of the Jewish-Polish Committee, we prepared the defence and rescue of the refugees from neighbouring Poland who had been summoned before the military court - the office of Dr. Trajan Popovici was our asylum in the bitterest hours.” Like thousands and thousands of other Jews from Czernowitz, my grandparents Elias and Marjem Hauster survived the Holocaust thanks to the initiative of Traian Popovici and several other courageous Romanian political leaders, such as Minister Dr. Dori Popovici, Inspector General Mihai Paun and General Dumitru Petruc. This is well documented, but the underground activities that took place in Traian Popovici's law office were completely new and most interesting to me and probably to many others. https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/popovici.html https://www.difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:41d6e602-ef65-436c-8675-7a2a55976063 Dr. Manfred Reifer founded the Chug Olej Bukovina [Association of Immigrants from Bukovina] and decided to publish “Die Stimme”. He entrusted with this task Dr. Elias Weinstein, the former editor of the renowned daily newspaper “Czernowitzer Morgenblatt”. I will try to let “Die Stimme” continue to resound in the future and invite you to follow me on this journey. Your comments are highly welcome! Edgar Hauster [MacBook] P.S.: By courtesy of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe (DiFMOE) "Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+" Digitization Project: https://www.difmoe.eu Edgar Hauster [MacBook] ******************************************************************************* This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/czernowitz-l@list.cornell.edu/ To send mail to the list, address it to <czernowit...@cornell.edu<mailto:czernowit...@cornell.edu>>. 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