[Cz-L] Across the Bug

About the other side of the Bug:

Some of my relatives ended up on the other side of the Bug and some barely
escaped being sent there. This is what remember my parents and other
relatives talking about:

The Romanians ruled on one side of the Bug, the Germans were on "the other
side of the Bug". Jewish people, who behaved rebelliously in Transnistria,
as well as the old and weak were sent over the Bug to be murdered there.

My mothers aunt, Hanna Wiznitzer about 50 years old in 1941, was with my
family in the ghetto. I remember a conversation between her and my mother,
who urged her aunt to hide so as not to be deported to Transnistria.
Hanna Wiznitzer replied: they will not take me, what would they want with an
old woman like me? They took her, sent her over the Bug and killed her.

My mother's cousin Itzig Fruchter, was deported to Transnistria with his
wife and three children. He was a strong man, a sportsman. I have no idea by
what actions he angered the Romanian soldiers, but from eyewitnesses we know
that he was sent over the Bug and hanged. The ages of his three children
were at that time 12, 8 and 5. One day when their mother was at work, a
German officer came to the camp asking: "Wo sind die drei blonde Kinder? "
The oldest child, a girl of 12, hid herself and her two younger siblings
inside rucksacks piled up in a corner. She saved all of them. To the best of
my knowledge, they are alive and well in Israel.

Mimi

On 10/14/09 11:25 AM, "alexander rosner" <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de> wrote:

> 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.
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