Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+Part of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe e.V. (DiFMOE, Munich) , this collection consists of several parts:
I. 16 historical newspapers that were produced in the former Austrian and then Romanian Bukovina in the interwar period, mainly under Jewish editorship in German and Yiddish, as well as the “Czernowitzer Deutsche Tagespost”, a newspaper which, after 1933, in unison with and supported by Berlin, participated in the numerous anti-Semitic smear campaigns that ultimately resulted in the extermination of a large part of the Jewish population in Bukovina, and “Die Stimme”, launched in 1944 by Elias Weinstein in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine and still published in Israel today, which became a printed information and communication platform for survivors after the Holocaust.
II. DiFMOE, in cooperation with the Czernowitz Discussion Group, the global virtual association of around 500 Jewish Bukovinian Holocaust survivors and their descendants, integrated selected parts of the group's own archive with valuable personal and family documents in the digital library. Within the JEWISH GERMAN BUKOVINA 1918+ collection, the around 1,000 objects can be viewed both in their entirety and sorted by the individual private collections of the members.
III. "The Correspondence of Elias Hauster": The German administrator of the Czernowitz Discussion Group, Edgar Hauster, made a special source available from his personal family archive: 122 letters from the correspondence of grandfather Elias Hauster with his son Julius Hauster (the second son Maximilian was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943) give the reader a profound impression of everyday life, of mental life, but above all of the great plight of the Romanian Holocaust survivors immediately after the end of the Second World War (1946-1949). The high-resolution scans of the handwritten letters were combined with the transcriptions in a digitally created book and thus made full-text searchable.