ROMANIAN JEWS ASSOCIATION of HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

AERVH

11 Vasile Adamache Str., Bucuresti, 3-rd District, p.c.030783Tel/fax: 4021 322 9554,

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Motto: Gratitude is a rare flower. APPEAL            

   The Romanian Jews Association of Holocaust Victims launches an APPEAL towards the survivors or descendents of the Cernauti Jews.   

    In the autumn of the year 1941 the storm of war broke upon the jewish population of  Basarabia and Bucovina. The politics of ethnic purification by Transnistria deportation  began and in that county hundred of thousands of Jews were exterminated by hunger, cold,  illness and bullets.              

    In those terrible times, among those who defended us (and there were few then with such an attitude) was the Mayor of the city of Cernauti, Dr.Traian Popovici.              

   Thanks to his actions, a great part of the Jews of Cernauti was saved from  deportation to Transnistria. This was the reason for his destitution later from the Mayor’s function. He died in the year 1946 and for his merits The Yad Vashem Institute accorded him posthumously (in 1969) the title “The Righteous Among the Nations”.

    Included are a photograph with his face and the tomb monument from the cemetery in Fundul Moldovei (photographed with the help of FEDROM) exhibited in the little museum dedicated to the Holocaust in the Great Sinagogue – Bucuresti, 11 Vasile Adamache Street.

 
               

    If the businessman Schindler who saved 1000 Jews is known in all the world (and it is a very good thing), Dr.Traian Popovici is unknown everywhere, even in his own country.              

   Lately, a group of men with good heart had an initiative to create in Fundul Moldovei (15 km from Campulung Moldovenesc, jud.Suceava) the “Association for Education, Democracy and Tolerance –Traian Popovici”. This association obtained that the general school in Fundul Moldovei be named Traian Popovici. Currently, these men, permanently in touch with us, work to create a little museum in the school building, dedicated to the life and activity of Traian Popovici.              

   AERVH sustains those efforts and proposes the realization of a bust representing this true good man which would be situated in a park named Traian Popovici. The local authorities have promised all their support for the completion of this goal.              

   The bust would cost between 3000 – 4000 Euro, depending on the material used.              

   Hoping that our APPEAL will find an echo in your hearts and it will be an occasion to show that the Jews don’t forget the friends who helped them in times of need, that the gratitude flowers are not so rare, we propose the organizing of a Fund Raising in order to obtain the necessary money.     

The donations account is opened at  Banc Post S.A.Corneliu Coposu Branch  23 Sfanta Vineri street, 

building 105B  Bucharest, sector 3

The account owner is AERVH             

                                                                                                        AERVH

                                                 Vicepresident

                                                      Liviu Beris