RE: [Cz-L] The mass exodus

Mordecai...

Thank you for your outstanding contribution to our discussion group by your vivid report on the "repatriation" in May 1945 and for the excellent link to the Red Army Memorial.

Warmest wishes from the Netherlands and keep writing to the forum!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:44:33 +0300
> From: lapidotm_at_zahav.net.il
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] The mass exodus
> To: HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>
> Being one of those who were "repatriated" to Romania at begin May 1945 I
> still remember the elation at receiving the permission to leave. I was only
> 12 then, but remember vividly the border checking, being frightened to the
> very last if this is not a trick to send us NorthEastward instead of
> Southward. I also remember the transfer of the little goods we could bring
> with us onto a horse drawn farm cart, on which only we children sat, with
> the parents trodding along through the woody area and the subsequent elation
> when arriving in Dorohoi, from where we were transferred a week later to a
> town in Southern Romania.

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