Czernowitzers: I believe I may have shared this earlier but forgive me for drawing it to your attention again (just in case).
Jim https://www.maksimgoldenshteyn.com/ Book <https://www.maksimgoldenshteyn.com/> About <https://www.maksimgoldenshteyn.com/about> Contact <https://www.maksimgoldenshteyn.com/contact> <https://www.instagram.com/maksimgoldenshteyn/> <https://www.maksimgoldenshteyn.com/> <https://www.maksimgoldenshteyn.com/about> <https://www.maksimgoldenshteyn.com/contact> <https://www.instagram.com/maksimgoldenshteyn/> Cover: So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine. A book about Transnistria in Romanian-occupied Ukraine during World War II. <https://www.oupress.com/9780806176062/so-they-remember/> Read an excerpt <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2023/01/27/book-extract-so-they-remember-a-jewish-familys-story-of-surviving-the-holocaust-in-soviet-ukraine-by-maksim-goldenshteyn/> Add to Goodreads <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59113047-so-they-remember> Available from: University of Oklahoma Press <https://www.oupress.com/9780806176062/so-they-remember/> Bookshop.org <https://bookshop.org/p/books/so-they-remember-a-jewish-family-s-story-of-surviving-the-holocaust-in-soviet-ukraine-maksim-goldenshteyn/17478190?ean=9780806176062> Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/So-They-Remember-Surviving-Holocaust/dp/0806176067/> “Without any exaggeration, Maksim Goldenshteyn’s book should be counted among the best publications on the topic of the Holocaust in Romania. The author’s intent to document his grandfather’s survival in the death camp of Pechora (Transnistria) turned into a book which would have made even a trained historian proud (the author being a journalist). With diligence that I can only compare to that showed by Jonathan Littell in “The Kindly Ones,” Goldenshteyn … did not leave any page of survivors’ testimonies unturned or historical documentation held in various archives around the word unexamined. The result is truly formidable, including a panoramic history of the Pechora camp, as well as the Holocaust in Romania in its entirety. For specialists, this a must read, truly.” ― *Diana Dumitru*, historian, Georgetown University “I think the strength of this book is that it combines this personal, family story ... with historical research. It makes it interesting for the general public, not just for a small circle of scholars. There is still a lot to be uncovered about Romania's participation in the Holocaust — specifically this territory of Transnistria.” ― *Stefan Cristian Ionescu*, historian, Chapman University “A family history and a major academic contribution to the field of Holocaust Studies … bringing to light the crimes against humanity committed by the Axis (Romanian and German) powers in the oft-overlooked and lesser-studied Eastern European region of Transnistria.” ― *Cristina A. Bejan*, historian, University of Denver “Pulling in resources from historical and culturological scholarship, the book enables readers to see a bigger picture … An example of how oral testimonies and histories can be utilized as a foundation for creating microhistories, reconstructing discrete historical events, and connecting them to a broader historical context.” ― /Oral History Review/ <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00940798.2025.2468096> “The result is not just a subjective survivor story, which would have been good on its own. Goldenshteyn has also attempted to verify the information and has achieved a remarkable feat … Goldenshteyn’s book stands out positively from the standard positions of memoir literature in some respects, not least in the solid historical background.” ― Frank Golczewski, University of Hamburg,/Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas/ <https://biblioscout.net/article/99.140005/jgo202104068701> “[A] fine and well-researched monograph based mainly on the testimonies of his grandfather and other survivors. What makes Goldenshteyn’s book so valuable is the fact that he plunged into both the relevant archival sources and the existing scholarly literature and managed to interweave his family’s story with the history of the Holocaust in the borderlands of the Soviet Union.” ― Simon Geissbühler, diplomat and political scientist, /Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs/ <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2022.2116672> ABOUT SO THEY REMEMBER *In this intimate blend of history, memoir, and reportage, author Maksim Goldenshteyn illuminates an oft-overlooked chapter of the Holocaust and traces its echoes across decades, continents, and generations.* In August 1941, with its invasion of the Soviet Union underway, Nazi Germany ceded part of southwestern Ukraine to its most important ally on the Eastern Front: Romania. Romanian occupiers quickly established camps and ghettos throughout the territory, targeting the local Jewish population and those deported from nearby regions. Four months later, the author’s grandfather Motl Braverman, then 12, was forced from his hometown of Tulchyn, Ukraine. He endured a harrowing march to a death camp in the remote village of Pechera alongside his family and neighbors. Against staggering odds, the Bravermans survived the notorious Romanian camp and witnessed the Red Army’s liberation in March 1944. Upon their return to Tulchyn, survivors like Motl—many of them still children—faced the daunting task of rebuilding their shattered lives and communities. They remained in their native towns through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, constituting some of the last Yiddish-speaking Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. PRESS “A blend of intimate family memoir and historical research.” ― /Associated Press/ <https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-germany-the-holocaust-bucharest-d9ea18c37e2daa9d60f0eb558b146981> “Goldenshteyn tells his family’s story in ‘So They Remember,’ but he also walks us through the broader history in a style that blends deep research with a compelling narrative.” ― /KNKX-FM//(NPR member station)/ <https://www.knkx.org/2022-01-27/their-stories-were-repressed-seattle-authors-family-survived-less-known-chapter-of-holocaust> “Goldenshteyn’s book lays bare that we’re not so far removed from the unimaginable, which was exacerbated by … a broad ‘policy of forgetting.’” ― /Seattle Met magazine/ <https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2022/03/seattle-author-nonfiction-book-world-war-two-eastern-europe> “Eighty years later, our Holocaust narrative is built around the death factories: Auschwitz, Bełżec, Treblinka. But Motl’s story reminds us that the fate of the Jews of the USSR, like the fate of the Jews of Poland, all but played itself out long before the Wannsee Conference, where the Final Solution was codified in early 1942.” ― /Jewish Book Council/ <https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/so-they-remember-a-jewish-familys-story-of-surviving-the-holocaust-in-soviet-ukraine> “[A] remarkable book … The author has done thorough research to place his grandfather's memories in the broader historical context. Maksim also tells about his own way to discover and understand his family history, which was unknown to him for years.” ― Mikhail Krutikov, scholar of Slavic literature and Judaic studies, /Forverts/The Forward/ <https://forward.com/yiddish/518038/how-a-jewish-family-survived-the-holocaust-under-romanian-occupation/> “[A] must-read book … Maksim's work is … vital. He is so well-versed in the history of this heinous time period.” ― /Marc Stein, The Stein Line/ <https://marcstein.substack.com/p/the-nba-finals-and-my-late-father> “Tells the dramatic story of a ... Jewish family during Romania's occupation of this [Soviet] territory. It is one of the few books that draws attention to the tragedy of Jews from this region.” ― /Radio France Internationale Romania/ <https://www.rfi.ro/reportaj-rfi-142601-evreii-din-nordul-transnistriei-1941-1944-persecutati-sub-autoritate-romaneasca> ******************************************************************************* 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. 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