[Cz-L] In the words of my late cousin, Betty Limonchik Millman

I drafted this during several interviews with a cousin, now deceased. It is
written in the third person, but reflects her words almost exactly, as is
shown by the rambling style. Merle
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"Betty Limonchik Millman's family somehow managed to hide when the Romanians
came to round up the Jews in Czernowitz. Betty's father had purchased the
authorization for them to remain in their house. There were two ways to do
this - either buy the papers from the mayor, or, more expensively, from a
Mr. Calotescu, who was responsible for Bukovina. Mr. Calotescu's papers
were more expensive than the mayor's were, but were more valuable. After
the mayor was deposed, all the Jews, who had bought their papers from him,
were rounded up by the authorities, and deported to Transnistria. Even
though, relatively safe with Calotescu's papers, some people were still
unlucky .

In the summer of l942, when the Jews were being put into railway cars for
deportation, one of the cars was half-empty. The police, then closed a
street, and went from door to door, looking for people, who had purchased
these papers, and took them, too.

One day, all the Jews in the neighbourhood were ordered to pack whatever
belongings they could and go to the railway station. They were all under
the impression that they were going to be deported. They were all in the
street for as far as the eye could see - all with their bundles and goods
piled in wagons. However, as no one had horses, the wagons were next to
impossible to move, so everyone stayed as they were in the street. After
several hours, some soldiers came by and ordered all those Jews in front of
one house, to go inside and stay there. (They gave similar orders to other
groups of people, in front of other large houses.) Betty Millman's was among
those families - this situation lasted for several days and then, the ghetto
was diminished in size, and the house was no longer within the boundaries,
as it had previously been. These families were then sent to other houses,
(within the new boundaries of the ghetto.) Fearing deportation to
Transnistria, these families buried their valuables, money, etc., under the
boards in the basement and in the walls of the house. Later, most of the
Jews were allowed to return to their own homes, and then ordered to move to
other places to allow the Romanians to take over their homes.

Upon returning, after the liberation of Transnistria, in 1944, none of these
items were found - the basement was broken open, exposed, and empty. The
Millmans, with the grandparents, were then allowed to live in their own
apartment, as they had purchased the necessary "permits" to do so. However,
one of their Romanian neighbours, supposed good friends, took a liking to
their apartment and so the Millman family was sent to live in another
apartment, vacant, since the Jewish family who had previously inhabited it,
had been sent to Transnistria. The Romanian neighbour family moved into the
former Millman apartment."
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