Re: [Cz-L] Red Army recapture.

Dear all, Few of us can forget that arrival!!! each for different reasons,
some came from Rumania to join them some ran from them. The only question I
have is, as far as I remember, it was in June when they came as well as
when they left, am I wrong????
Shavua Tov,
anny M

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:00 PM, <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

> 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
>

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