AW: [Cz-L] Judenstadt

Dear Miriam,

you probably got the information that Transnistria doesn't mean "The
other side of the Bug" but "The other side of the Nistru", which is
the Romanian word for the river Dniestr, so the area between those
rivers.

I don't have documentation about what happened on other side of the
Bug, but maybe a story, which my Grandfather told us about 40 years
ago.

He was sent with his family to Transnistia and was ordered to live in
one of the small villages where most of the Jews were sent to live.
He was already 62 or 63 years old when he was deported.
Close to "his" village was a river with a bridge. He didn't mention
the name of the river or the village, at least I don't remember. It
could be the Bug, as on the other side of the river there was a kind
of German concentration camp. Germans, not Romanians, ruled there.
 From time to time a group of the SS crossed the bridge, entered one
of the villages and captured children which they could get hold
taking them across the bridge. These children never returned.

One evening a German SS officer came to my Grandfather and told him,
that they have an order for the next morning to enter the village XXX
and take the children, then he left. My Grandfather ordered somebody
 from his village quickly to go to the village XXX, to pass the
information and to suggest that all children should get out of that
village. The next morning a SS group entered that village and as they
didn't find any children they returned to their territory without
captives.

The same procedure was repeated few times more with other villages.
Then this officer stopped coming. I can't tell if it was because he
got problems and was replaced (and the original captures resumed) or
these orders stopped. I don't know the name of the officer, maybe my
Grandfather didn't know either.

Alex.

Von: Elan&Miriam Lava <melava1_at_netvision.net.il>
An: Gaby & Mira Rinzler <grinzler_at_gru.net>
CC: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 14. Oktober 2009, 11:10:50 Uhr
Betreff: Re: [Cz-L] Judenstadt

Thank you, Gaby, for your information.
Do you know, perhaps, if there is any documentation about what
happened at the eastern side of the bug, that had been under German
occupation ?

Miriam
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