Looking for my stepbrother in Mogilev.
My stepmother and her husband whose last name was Schwartz, were expelled from Czernowitz to Transnistria, they walked over a month on foot all the way to Mogilev. As soon as they arrived in Mogilev her husband was taken away by the Romanians and given to the Germans never to be seen again. My stepmother whose name was Dora was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy on arrival in Mogilev.
She had not eaten for nearly one week and had no milk to nurse her baby.
She told me, that she walked over to the barbwire fence and begged a passing peasant woman to take her baby and to take care of it. The 2 or 3 years that she was interned in Mogilev she never saw her baby or her husband again.
In 2006 during our Czernowitzer Reunion, I visited Mogilev with my wife; we walked the streets looking for an old man of 65 who possibly looked like my stepmother.
Arthur
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