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Monday, October 23, 2006

RelationNet FE HA 31 CH RO


RelatioNet FE HA 31 CH RO
Feder Haim


Interviewer:

Full Name/s : Maya Sade & Tal Refael

Email: ELIJAH1@WALLA.COM

Address:Israel, Kfar-Saba


Survivor:

Code: RelatioNet FE HA 31 CH RO
Family Name: Feder First Name: Haim
Father Name: Father Name Mother Name: Mother Name
Birth Date: 1/01/1925
Town In Holocaust: Town Country In Holocaust: Country
Profession (Main) In Holocaust: Profession
Status (Today): Alive
Address Today: Israel, Kfar-saba.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Siret Bukovina

Siret, a city in north-Romania located in Bukovina.
Suceava county , half-way between Suceava and Chernivtsi.
That settlement got its status back in the year 1371, the city developed quickly because its location between south-Galitsia and Hungary. Today that city is a cross border point between Romania and Ukraine.

Bukovina of today as an historical region is divided between Romania and Ukraine.
Independence of Bukovina came at the year of 1848. The jews recived full merits which was a insignificant factor for the increase of their population almost in 12%, at the year 1880.
In the second world-war the majority of the Jews were exiled to Transnistria, many did not come back.
Today their number is much less and they stay at north-Bukovina.
Between 1918-1775 Bukovina was the most Eastern Crown of Austria-Hungary Empire, and her Capital was Chernivtsi.
While first world - war, Bukovina was the battle-filed between the Russian and Austrian armies.
Although the Russian were pushed out from that region Austria lost her control of Bukovina, according to the San – Jermien pact.
On the 28th of November 1918 Bukovina was united with Romania under the "Great-Romania" name.




Romania - Historical Regions Map:



THE HOLOCAUST/ HAIM FEDER

In the year 1939, while studying at school, second class, I remember a boy getting close to me, wanting to throw me out of the window – third floor- yelling: "Jew go to Palestine"!
Luck for me, the teacher, just entered the class and that was how I saved. For me it was the beginning of the holocaust, and few weeks later HELL began.
One clear morning, while being at school, the teacher cane into class and declared: "As from that minute Jewish children will stop learning at the school".
Some months later, coming back from the 'CHEDER' I saw policemen in our house. Mother came to me and gave me something to eat, and told me to eat it fast, because we have to leave our home soon, and go with all our people to the town square.
Within 2 hours after taking personal things, each of us a bag or a luggage, while the policemen shouting at us to be quick about it, one of them took my mother's personal bag, which contained our family photos and golden jewels. My mother appealed and begged for the photos only, but he hit her with his riffle ( that’s why I have no photos of my father and I do not remember him at all). All Jewish people were gathered in the town-square, and from there we walked to the train station, (expelled) driven away from our town.
Until the beginning of the war I lived with my parents Arie and Sarah in the city, Cirt, Bukovina, Romania.
War happened at the beginning of 1941, we were expelled to a concentration camp Kariova – Romania.

We were locked in a Bricks factory which was fenced by high wire.
Romania police were our guards, and we were forced to wear the yellow patch on our chests-magen David-.
October 1941, we were transferred back to Bukovina through Radoch town to Marcolshet camp, and next day we were forced to go on foot to the Nister pass in Besarabia until we reached Chivolka village in Ukraina, where we were taken to a getto fenced by wire and guarded by Romanian police.
We found a small place in a neglected stable (after walking hundreds of kilometers in mud and rain. It was very cold and a lot of people could not take it and died. Those who could not walk were beaten by the policemen, and some were even shot to death).
My father and sister died of hunger and the colds of winter 1941.
By the year 1942 I was transferred with my brother, sister and my mother to Bersht camp, and from that camp again – after some weeks back to the stable in Chivolka.

It is simply impossible to describe 4 years of terrible suffering, mentally.
What I told up to now, is just a very small part of it – what I call – Hell -.

March1944 we were liberated by the Soviet army, who was for us our savivor, and after that we started to organize our Aliya to ISRAEL.

That is the essence of my holocaust story, I was 8 years old when it happened , and it is too much for me to tell about that terrible period. I was 12 years old when all that suffering ended, and I will never forget it.
Going back to "our" town, Cirt , took us 3 month of a very difficult time.
We collected vegetables like corn, wheat and beet roots from the fields, to satisfy our hunger. My mother went through the farmers in the villages to look for materials to sew for us clothing, and also food , because we were so tired and weak. After that we started our walk towards Cirt. We had to sleep in the fields and forests suffering from the frost.
Once in a while we found neglected Jewish homes. Every morning after a drink of water and eating a piece of bread we kept on walking some times lucky to get a drive with the Russian army which brought us to the next village, and again to walk hundreds of miles. After 3 months like that we came to the city Chernovitch , where we got stuck almost for an year , that was the border between Russia and Romania, we had to prove we were Romanian citizens.
At last we could pass and got home, to Cirt. Even before we reached home , my mother met people she knew – survivors- who told her that her 2 brothers, her sister and her husband and 3 children, grandmother and grandfather, all of them did not survive . She cried, so much, she hoped that at least some part of the family did make it. After passing the border with other survivors we were welcomed by the Joint representatives –Jewish. We got some food, enough for a week. We found our house totally ruined, the town was bombed by the Russians, as a result nothing was left. We found a place to live at a neglected house.

After that 'survival' started, we got in touch with my older sister, who came to Israel before the Holocaust in 1940. She sent us money by an Israeli messenger, 10 L.sterling which saved us from hunger.
After a year we started the hard and long struggle of the Aliya (A long story).

Somehow with many difficulties, each one of us, made it to Israel. Part of us, me and my brother, came before the Independence war, my mother and sister came through Cyprus, right when Independence started. Which was the most encouraging thing that happened, we had a Jewish country, a place to receive a lot of our people- survivors of the Holocaust.

I agreed to tell it for the coming generations so they will never forget the Holocaust. 6 million Jewish people – murdered by the Natzim.

Monument erected in memory of the Jewish Martyrs of Siret. Holon Cemetery, Israel.




video clip of old Chernivtsi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7JGthjwk