In 1944 I can't remember the dates. One morning 3am the NKVD came to
the house & told my father to get dressed . He was taken away, we did not
know where ,for the next few days I went from one Milizia house to another
until I found him. I was told by the Nachalnik to have some warm
clothes for him
as he will be sent away. I brought these the next day with some food A lot
of
other men were there also in the same situation. I came the next day
he & the others were
gone. We did not know where but only guessed Siberia. Disquiet set in
as a new horror unfolded.
It took 2 weeks to find out his destination was Swerdlovsk &
Tsheliabinsk past the Urals.
Somehow he managed with other to flee & making their way some months
later back. We did not recognise
him ,he changed in fear of re capture. At that time the borders were
open and he fled to Roumania.
Once we got the Propuska to leave Czernowitz we met him in Siret. Life
in Siberia was absolute misery
you did not know Russian , you worked hard ,you were considered the
lowest being. Many perished of cold, disease & starvation.
Very few were able to describe the hell that was Siberia. Jews went
from the frying pan Getho < Concentration camps
into the fire of Siberia.
Fred. Weisinger
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Irene Fishler <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>
wrote:
> Hi , Maurice
> This Is a big question; did Stalin know ? Was the deportation to Siberia
on June 13, 1941 linked to the imminent attack on Soviet Russia?
>
> It is said that Stalin did not believe the spy Richard Sorge:
> "Sorge supplied Soviet intelligence with information about the
Anti-Comintern Pact and the German-Japanese Pact. In 1941, through his
Embassy contacts, he learned of Operation Barbarossa, the imminent Axis
invasion of the USSR, and even the approximate date. Moscow received the
report, but ultimately Joseph Stalin and other top leaders ignored Sorge's
warnings, as well as those of other sources.
> (...) the closest Sorge came was 20 June 1941 and that Sorge himself
never claimed to have discovered the correct date (22 June) in advance. The
date of 20 June was given to Sorge by Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-Colonel)
Erwin Scholl, the deputy military attaché at the German embassy"
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sorge
>
> Irene
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-119520797-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-119520797-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Maurice
Linker
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 5:16 AM
> To: M.Goldberger
> Cc: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Siberia
>
> Hi
> I and my family - my father had a No 39 passport - were warned by a
friend and hid during that night so escaped the deportation.
> I was with my aunt uncle and daughter when their were taken away to
Siberia in the middle of the night and never returned.
> PS did the soviets know that the german will attack in August 1941?
>
> Sent from my iPad
> Preferred email address linkerm_at_ieee.org Maurice Linker Tel/fax
+61293631399 Mob 0410808599
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