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From: R. Kovacs
Subject: Baseline registry scope
Date: 9 Elul 5782
This reminds me of something my zeyde told me about the kehilla records in Munkács.
The shammas kept a list of community members. Who was on the list and who was not. My zeyde said there was a family, the Lefkovits (or perhaps Lefkowitz, he was not consistent), who had lived in the town for three generations but were never added to the official list. Some dispute about the grandfather's status, long forgotten by the time my zeyde was a boy. But the list remained, and the Lefkovits family remained off it.
When the Germans came, they used the kehilla lists.
The Lefkovits family was not on the list. This did not save them.
I do not know what the moral is, exactly. Perhaps: the list is never complete. Perhaps: the list is always used for purposes we did not intend. Perhaps both.
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