I was born on October 13, 1941 as the first child in the Czernowitz ghetto.
My parents and I were not deported thanks to one of the 15,000 authorizations that Trajan Popovici, the mayor of Czernowitz, was able to obtain from General Antonescu. In order to obtain such an authorization, my mother and I were classified in the category “women with children younger than one year” and received authorization no. 33. My father received authorization no. 10412 in the “specialist” category as a rubber specialist.
Only my aunt, my father's youngest sister, could still be registered on my father's authorization and could thus be saved.
Unfortunately, the entire families of both my parents had already been deported from Strojinetz to Transnistria and perished there.
As my mother always carefully kept all the files, I can present our three original authorizations here.
Source: Die Stimme, 01.02.2006 (Nr. 668), S. 2