Re: [Cz-L] Red Army recapture.

The day the Russians arrived in Czernowitz is one of the most vivid
memories of my childhood. It had been a very cool March, we lived next
to the "Caserna" on the Schmiedt Gasse and the grownups were afraid
that either the Romanians or the Russians would explode the building.
In the center of town, the German soldiers fleeing through Czernowitz,
blew up a car full of amunition which had run out of gas. The sound of
the explosion had sent waves of panic through the neighborhood. But on
the 23rd of March, the Russians arrived. I do not know how the news
reached us. The day was sunny and warm and everyone went to the
Siebenburger Strasse to welcome and cheer them on. They arrived in
command cars and open trucks and smiled at us, threw candies to the
children and called "malchik" and "dyevushka". Meaning boy and girl.
The first two Russian words I learned.

Only later did the invalids and amputees arrive. Big men who's legs had
been cut off at the knees, who stood an little wooden platforms and
propelled themselves forward with their hands on the sidewalk.

And later, the deportees from Transnistria; dressed in rags, crawling
with lice, emaciated children and despondent adults.

Mimi

Quoting HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>:

> http://pics.livejournal.com/whasup/pic/00wyyzx6
>
> 1944,
> The Russians are coming , the Russians are coming ! Hardy

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