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 was 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 drawn by one or two horses that was hired from one of the South Bukovina villages (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 was 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 staff 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 anyway, 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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מאת: Fred Weisinger
תאריך: Monday, April 13, 2015 4:46
נושא: Re: [Cz-L] North of Radautz
אל: Christian Herrmann
העתק: Czernowitz Mailing-Liste
>
> End of 1944 the Russian allowed Jews & others to leave Czernowitz
> and Siret was the crossing point.
> The pictures are poignant. Bad magic, images of a world we have
> lived in
> then boom its gone.
> I admire in Christian, Petra & Achim the skill in photography
> to conjure the past.
> Fred. Weisinger
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Christian Herrmann
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > My friends and I continued our journey today with another
> excursion from
> > Radautz. Siret is a small town north of Radautz; from there we
> went on to
> > Mihaileni and Dorohoi. Both places are no longer in Bukovina,
> but already
> > in the neighboring Boto=C8=99ani county. The traces of Jewish
> life are ea=
> sy to
> > find in all three places.
> >
> > https://vanishedworld.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/north-of-radautz/
> >
> > All the best to you!
> > Christian
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