Dear Marcela, Here are some relevant sources https://myshtetl.org/vinnitskaja/mogilev_en.html
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/mohyliv_podilskyy/index.html https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/mogilev-podolskiy.html?sortBy=relevant All the best Marc On Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 02:42 Marcela Bronstein Terra - mbron at terra.com.br (via CZERNOWITZ-L list) <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends > My name is marcela bronstein and I’m republishing 5 books of Samuel > Malamud, who was born in 1908 in Moguilov Podolski and came to Brasil in > 1925. He was the best friend of my grandfather Manoel Bronstein. > > I’m trying to find some old pictures from Moguilev Podolsky or from other > shteitls nearby to illustrate one of the books. I would love to have > pictures from the bridge over the Dniester who connects to Ataki. > > Anyone can help? > > Toda raba, tks and obrigada > M > Marcela Bronstein > > On 2 Aug 2026, at 10:25, fichblue at aol.com (via CZERNOWITZ-L list) < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you, Edgar, for sharing the " somewhat different picture"(s) from > the two quoted texts. The Raggam-Blesch snippet, with its depth of > background, and details of the lengths people went to in order to escape > from Nazi persecution, is frighteningly stirring. > > Eytan Fichman > Brookline, MA > > Hải Phòng > Việt Nam > > On Sunday, August 2, 2026 at 02:30:45 AM EDT, Edgar Hauster < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Czernowitzers... > > A new edition of "Die Stimme", the monthly newspaper for the Bukovinians, > was published on 01-JUL-1958. Let's take a journey into the past together > to comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back > then! > > In its July 1958 issue, "Die Stimme" celebrates the appointment of "our > fellow countryman" Dr. Emil Tuchmann as a Hofrat by the Republic of > Austria. But it’s worth not letting ourselves be blinded by this and taking > a closer look. The renowned historian PD Dr. Michaela Raggam-Blesch, whose > reputation is beyond dispute, paints a somewhat different picture in her > study "Between Rescue and Deportation: Jewish Health Care under Nazi Rule > in Vienna". As two sides of the same coin, I contrast the article "DR. > TUCHMANN—HOFRAT" from "Die Stimme" with the relevant excerpt from the study > of PD Dr. Michaela Raggam-Blesch’s study. Make up your own mind! > > > "DR. TUCHMANN – HOFRAT: One of the highest honors granted by the Republic > of Austria was bestowed upon our fellow countryman, Chief Physician Dr. > Emil Tuchmann. Dr. Tuchmann, a native of Jablonitza, graduated from the > Second State Gymnasium in Czernowitz, after which he studied medicine at > the University of Vienna. During World War I, he enlisted as a volunteer > and returned home having been awarded several decorations. He then > completed his medical studies. His professional career began at the Health > Insurance Fund for Commercial Employees; later, he successfully ran his > private practice in the 2nd District. During the most difficult times, he > headed the health care system of the Vienna Jewish Community until he > returned to work at the health insurance fund in 1945. He left no stone > unturned in his efforts to expand the health care system in Vienna, > particularly the youth clinics. He focused his attention primarily on the > institutions in the hospital and convalescent care sectors that had been > destroyed as a result of the war. It was certainly no easy task to meet the > demands of this complex undertaking, which required substantial resources. > Yet, with his characteristic energy, he overcame all difficulties and > successfully implemented many reforms. The ceremony marking his appointment > turned into an impressive gathering attended by a wide range of people. In > the presence of high-ranking officials from the ministry, Federal Minister > Proksch presented him—in his capacity as consulting physician for the Main > Association of Social Insurance Institutions and chief medical officer of > the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund—with the decree appointing him to > the rank of Hofrat. Hofrat Dr. Tuchmann is also a member of the Supreme > Health Council and the Provincial Health Council for Vienna. In his private > life, Dr. Tuchmann has remained the modest man averse to all formality that > he has always been, and when people from Bukovina seek him out in need of > his help, their visit is rarely in vain.—La" > > > Michaela Raggam-Blesch > Between Rescue and Deportation > Jewish Health Care Under Nazi Rule in Vienna > > "Emil Tuchmann (1899–1976) — Head of the Jewish Health Care System and the > Beginning of the Deportations from Vienna. In early 1940, Emil Tuchmann was > appointed 'Trusted Physician of the Jewish Community for the Entire Health > Care System.' In this role, he was subject to the supervision of the > Gestapo, to which he was required to submit monthly reports. If a complaint > or even a formal accusation was made against employees of the health > services, Tuchmann was held accountable. Consequently, he maintained a very > strict regime. His forceful and often irascible demeanor toward his > subordinates—which earned him nicknames such as 'the Tiger'—did not exactly > endear him to the staff. After the war, Tuchmann—like most of the leading > members of the “Council of Elders”—was denounced by Jewish survivors for > collaborating with the Nazi regime. He was primarily accused of the > relentlessness with which he had insisted on compliance with official > regulations. He was accused of threatening staff with transfer to the > dreaded forced-labor assignment at the “Mistgstätte” (garbage dump) and > even with imprisonment in a concentration camp. After spending several > months in pretrial detention, the case was dismissed. In fact, Tuchmann had > possessed less power than his subordinates had believed. Although he was > able to exempt individual members of his staff from the transports by > declaring them indispensable, he could not prevent anyone from being > deported. As Tuchmann stated after the war, he had hoped to protect as many > employees and patients as possible by strictly adhering to the regulations. > Yet he had repeatedly flouted the regulations himself when it came to > supplying the hospital with medicine and food. > > Tuchmann was indeed a skilled organizer. In 1941, he succeeded in > increasing the capacity of the Rothschild Hospital to 450 beds. At that > time, at the start of the large-scale deportations, the number of > unattended patients—who had been held back from the transports while their > family members, who had previously cared for them, were being deported—was > rising. At the same time, many Jews tried to avoid imminent deportation by > staying in the hospital, as Rosa Müller—who had been working as a nurse at > the Rothschild Hospital since 1939—described in an interview: > > 'I was working in the emergency room back then; it was in the morning. We > often had 50 admissions in a single morning. Everyone wanted to have their > appendix removed or undergo prostate surgery, just to kill time until they > could leave the country. [...] Of course, we could tell that people were > coming in who weren't really sick, but we admitted them anyway.' > > This practice did not go unnoticed by the Nazi authorities. Regular raids > on the hospital followed, as the surgeon Erich Stern described in his > memoirs. During these raids, both patients and visitors were searched. This > was dangerous even for non-Jewish visitors. Fanny Tritt, who worked as a > nurse at the Jewish nursing home and whose mother had undergone surgery for > breast cancer, also unexpectedly found herself caught up in one of these > raids one day while visiting—though, by sheer luck, she was not discovered. > The raids achieved the success the persecutors had sought. Soon they were > so feared that even sick Jews sometimes avoided being admitted to the > hospital. Susanne Kriss, for example, fought 'tooth and nail' against being > admitted to the Rothschild Hospital for a festering boil. > > In light of the continuing rise in the number of patients, a new training > program for nurses began in February 1942, when the deportations were > already in full swing. The course participants hoped that their > professional qualifications would protect them from deportation. Among them > was Alma Klüger, mother of the writer Ruth Klüger, who was born in Vienna > in 1931; for this reason, she was not deported to Theresienstadt until > September 1942, on one of the last transports of Jewish Community > employees, together with her daughter Ruth. Mother and daughter survived > several camps." > > > https://www.doew.at/cms/download/144gr/jb_2017_raggam.pdf > https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/MassMigration/mas140.html > https://difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:24166e0b-1f5e-4fef-92a7-b48cff9494a6 > > 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 > > This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject > of > Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. 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