Re: [Cz-L] Music in the wartime.

When the German army retreated, they had on the Herrengasse a car
loaded with ammunition, which ran out of fuel. They exploded the
ammunition.
The explosion could be heard on the Schmidtgasse where we lived.
Our neighbor Werner Munster thought that they were bombing the city and
started throwing the luggage we had all packed in order to flee fast,
through the window. One of the Rucksacks fell on his mother who was
working in the garden. As far as I know, she was the only civilian hurt
in the retreat.

Mimi
Quoting Hedwig Brenner <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>:

> Hi Hardy, You stayed on the roof, like the fidler???
>
> Everyone has an interesting story...when the german army retreated
> through Czernowitz. everyone looked for a place to hidden, because
> nobody knew, how it will be...so we were 3 jewish families in the
> appartment house in the Maria-Theresiengasse, the roumanian families
> run away with cars, horses, bicicles and the ucrainian porter
> disappeared, he knew what will be when the red army is coming, he
> showed to the SS in 1941 where jewish families live... so my husband
> found that the best hiding is on the loft under the roof....on the
> last store..a long ladder was there for reparations under the roof,
> the youg could get up the ladder, but can ms Sussmann with her 80
> kg.???but the young men did it one before her, one behind her....we
> took some proviant and water in our " biwak", but we could not stay,
> only sit down or laying, and look through the window on the
> roof...we locked the iron door , took up the ladder...and
> waited....we heard the shuts and crying on the street, a neighbour
> from the opposite house, Mr.Besen, was afraid when german soldiers
> locked on his door and shut through the door, he went on his balcony
> and suicide himself...so we could not see, only hear, like a horror
> scenary by radio...after some hours came home a 17 old very curious
> boy, Kurt, who lived with us, who went out this morning to live
> "history", knocked on the iron door, we became salt-bodies, like
> Sara, who looked back at Sodom and Gomorra, than when he spoke and
> told us that all is over, the german soldiers are bagging for
> civilian clothes, there were dead germans on streets soldiers, shot
> by theire comrades, because some would like to fight...and ukrainian
> huligans are brokong the vitrines of the shops....so we escaped
> without shuttings, hidden in the loft....and soon we heard the soviet
> tanks rolling up from the "Hauptstrasse to the Ringplatz... we were
> saved,free....free???
> Happy New Year 2011" to all members of the list
> Hedwig

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