Re: [Cz-L] Waiting to get out of there

I left Czernowitz with my parents in 1946. All our belongings were placed on
a cart drawn by a single tired horse. My parents had warned me to leave my
diary at home, written in German and containing many descriptions of life
under communism. I did not listen to them and, together with my favorite
doll and favorite book (the Tom Sawyer) I put it into my backpack.
When we arrived at the border in Seret we were asked to take apart all we
had with us. When I took out my diary, my parents grew pale with fright. The
soldier looked at it, turned a few pages, and finally rubber stamped it.
A long time this diary was exhibited to all and sundry as a curiosity, a
complete description of communist misery in Czernowitz, with a Russian
rubber stamp on it.
Lucca

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From: <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:04 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Waiting to get out of there

>I am curious to know when the Czernowitz born members of the list,
> or the parents of the second generation managed to get out of there
> (meaning the USSR).
> My parents and I left legally in the summer of 1945, either late June,
> or early July. At least twice before, during the winter of 1944 - 1945,
> we had planned to try to cross the border illegally. Once the peasants,
> who were to help us cross, became afraid and would not cross. Once,
> my parents, at the last moment, let friends of the family, go in their
> stead, because it was urgent for these friends to leave.
>
> Mimi
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