It’s so sad to hear the news of Berti’s passing. Edgar, your memorial to Berti is truly heartwarming. He lives on with all of us through our memories of him, and also through his many posts to this List over many years. He continued to post through 2023, but here’s a little gem from 2022:
Ruth Gold wrote to Arthur Rindner: From: RUTH GOLD <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 8:14:27 AM To: Arthur von Czernowitz <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [External] Re: [czernowitz-l] Christian's Documentay Dear Arthur, What a sad observation about the two of us being the only last living Czernowitzers. Hopefully we will live for another couple of years. Meanwhile, take good care of yourself and have happy Passover. With warm regards, Ruth Raul replied: From: Raul Artal <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: April 6, 2022 at 11:49:37 AM EDT To: RUTH GOLD <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Arthur von Czernowitz <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [External] Re: [czernowitz-l] Christian's Documentay Dear Ruth and Arthur, Please add me to your list of Czernowitzsers although , born in Bershad and only 3 yrs old when my parents and I left Czernowitz. Happy Pesach and best wishes Raul Raul Artal Mittelmark [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To which our BERTI replied: You will have to look closer, there are still others around. And in 1941 the Germans did not bombard Czernowitz, the explosions you heard in the shelter were the two bridges over the Pruth being blown up by the retreating Red Army. There was never a danger of gas attack in WWII. Hitler hated fighting with gas because of his experiences in WWI. I was 12 years old in 1941 and have still a vivid picture of the time and the following war years. Best Berti. ***** I will miss you, Berti. You were a gem to all of us. Bruce From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Edgar Hauster <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 02:28 To: CZERNOWITZ-L <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Czernowitz-L] Berti Glaubach (1929 - 2026) Czernowitzers... It is with the deepest sorrow that I must inform you that our long-time member, “my older brother” Berti Glaubach, passed away last Tuesday in Haifa at the ripe old age of 97. Berti took me into his heart and his family and called me “his little brother.” As an only child, I remain deeply devoted and grateful to him to this day. At the Jewish cemetery in Czernowitz, I sometimes searched for graves for him. When I found them, I was as excited as a child. Berti, my wife Martina, and I would occasionally work together to meticulously decipher old German and Romanian handwritten documents. Whenever we succeeded, all three of us were extremely proud. Thanks to his great affinity for language—a trait he passed down to his descendants; one of his grandchildren speaks over 20 foreign languages—he was able to interpret Paul Celan’s poetry with pinpoint accuracy. We listened to him with great admiration. Berti not only translated parts of the “History of the Jews in Bukovina,” he also saved Jehuda Aizman’s “From the Deeps…: Folk Songs from Camps and Ghettos in Poland” from oblivion. It was my privilege to publish Berti’s transcription and translation: http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.com/2015/02/from-deeps-folk-songs-from-camps-and.html Right up until the very end, Berti remained intellectually sharp and took an active yet critical interest in Israeli politics. It’s hard to believe, but he actually made sure to cast his vote in the parliamentary elections two weeks ago on October 27, 2026. With all his interests in the cultural and political spheres, he was first and foremost a MENSCH who was at the center of his loving family—his wife Stefi, her children Edna and Dani, and her four grandchildren. Our deepest sympathies go out to them! Martina and your “little brother,” Edgar! 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