That the Soviets allowed the Jews to leave was more in line of
ethnic cleansing albeit allowing the Jews to leave. Why Jews left
with no qualms one must not forget that Jews in the Bukovina had already a
taste
of Soviets in 1940 adding the NAZI Roumanian everybody was ready to leave
that also included lots of non Jews. When I went to the Militzia to apply &
get the Propuska ( Permit ) the
Nachalnik ( Officer ) wanted to see the dwelling as it was close to the
Militzia in the
Franzosgasse so he could appropriate it for himself. So another chapter of
confiscation
(robbery) took place. They also allowed other nationalities to leave on
this basis. We had some Polish friends who were also permitted to leave via
Roumania. They settled in Breslau ( Wrozlaw).
Fred. Weisinger
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:30 PM, <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il> wrote:
> As far as I recall, we passed to Dorohoi, in the course of the
> "repatriation" in April 1945. I do not recall the name of the spot (it wa=
s
> a clearing in a wooded area) where we were checked by the Soviets, before
> being placed (as a child) on top of our belongings, loaded on a cart draw=
n
> by one or two horses that was hired from one of the South Bukovina villag=
es
> (I suppose Dorohoi, because that is where he took us). We spent 2 or 3
> weeks in Dorohoi, before being sent by train to Craiova, the town that wa=
s
> selected for us by the Organization of Romanian Jewish Communities. I
> suppose others passed to Siret, which is a wee bit western from Dorohoi.
>
> To this day I am not sure about the reason the Soviets let us go in so
> great numbers. For some years I thought it was some gesture of Moscow
> towards American Jewry (that urged the US administration to sent support =
to
> the USSR in the last months of the war), but with time it occurred to me
> that the Soviets needed dwellings for the many military and civilian staf=
f
> they brought to Czernowitz, and this was the quickest and cheapest way to
> obtain them. And, with past knowledge, we know now what they knew at the
> time, that they are going to take over Romania as a Communist state anywa=
y,
> and not too long afterwards. So we still remain in their hands.
>
> My five cents...
>
> And, of course, wishing many more successful visits and photos to
> Christian and his team, who conjure up the past for us, as so well put by
> Fred
>
> Mordecai
>
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