[Cz-L] Train service in Chernovtsy and vicinity in 1944 - 45

Hardy's message reminds me:

During the winter of 1944-45, my father worked at a alcohol producing
factory in Hliboka. He would be there for a week or 10 days at a time, then
would come home for 2 or 3 days. To get to Hliboka and back he would use
the daily train. Once, when he was supposed to go back to Hliboka, he left
the house for the train station, but two hours later came back saying that
the locomotive engineer had been drunk and there would be no train going to
Hliboka that day. The next afternoon, he again went to the train station at
the appropriate time, two hours later, he was back again. The engine driver
had been drunk again. On the third day the exactly same sequence of events
followed. When my father came home, my mother asked:
 "Was the engine driver drunk again?"
"No" my father said, "This time when I arrived at he station, there was no
train there. When I asked for the train to Hliboka, the station master said=
:
'Because the train to Hliboka did not leave yesterday, nor the day before,
today he left early' ".

So it was not just "Propuska"s, you needed to travel by train anywhere.
Living under the Romanians had been like a horror movie, living under the
Russians - like living in a farce.

Mimi


On 6/10/09 3:08 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2775/37082419nt2.jpg
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> Kipetok and Komandirovka.
>
>
>
> Czernowitz 1944 ­ 45 . The war was still going on.
>
> If you wanted to travel from Czernowitz to visit
>
> family in neighboring towns you needed
>
> a travel permit ­ a komandirovka.
>
> These were issued by the military only after checking
>
> that you were not a draft dodger and could provide a
>
> good reason for travelling ,where you would stay,
>
> for how long and moreŠ
>
> Train trafic in those times was irregular.
>
> You went down to the station and waited for a connection.
>
> It could take days . The station was run by the military and
>
> crowded with refugees returning from Russia.
>
> Illegal travellers were held up and sifted for army dodgers.
>
> Food was a problem but nobody was going hungry.
>
> All experienced travellers had small kettles attached to their
>
> belts. The steam engines provided boiling water .
>
> If you had tea , you made some. If you had milk you made "okrip".
>
> As a train arrived a line formed near the engine with people
>
> holding the kettles or jars for hot steaming water from
>
> the engine: Kipetok.
>
> And Komandirovka.
>
>
> Hardy
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