I am interested to learn more about what went on there day to day with the deportees
[Stephen Winters] Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 14, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Maurice Linker <linkerm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> How were the trains - cattle or ordinary trains
>
> How did you get food
>
> Did you have to cross a river by boat?
>
> How come it took form October to December to get finish the journey
>
> [Maurice Linker]
>
> ________________________________
> From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylor37_at_gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 3:09 am
> To: Rick Held
> Cc: Czernowitz Genealogy and History; Maurice Linker; Konrad Kwiet; Berti G=
> laubach; Arthur von Czernowitz; Edgar Hauster
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The Transnistia "Evacuations"
>
> As far as I know, the Jews who were deported from Czernowitz to Transnistri=
> a,
> All were deported by train. from the smaller towns in Bucovina, like Sniati=
> n, Zastavna,
> They marched on foot. And here I would like to tell about an unusual incide=
> nt:
> My paternal grandmother and three of my aunts were all taken to the train s=
> tation
> To be deported to Transnistria. They were already on the train when two of =
> my aunts
> asked the guarding soldier to let them go to the toilet in the station.
> He did let them go. Just as they were coming out of the toilet, the train s=
> tarted moving.
> The aunts started running to the train and one of them managed to get on,
> The other aunt had had Polio in her childhood and was limping, she could no=
> t run
> fast enough and remained standing on the platform.
> Later that day she found her way to the apartment in which we were living
> And stayed with us for the duration of the war.
> We were not living in our own home from before the war, nor in the house
> in which we had lived during the Russian time (summer of 1940 to autumn of =
> 1941)
> So that I do not know how she found us. Probably through the Jewish "Plotke=
> " agency.
> There were other peculiar incidents, or at least so it was told;
> In the apartment building in which we lived for a while in 1942, there live=
> d a family by the name
> Of Frank or Fraenkel, when the soldiers came to pick them up to be deported=
> ,
> Mrs. Frank asked them to wait a minute till she put on her lipstick and the=
> y waited.
>
> Mimi
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Jan 11, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Rick Held <rickheld08_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> Some of you may recall that I have been writing a novel, a work of fictio=
> n, set in Cz during the war years. It is based on my father=92s memoirs. It=
> will be published this year, by Hachette.
>>
>> Over many months now, a small group of you (cc=92ed here) has contributed=
> to that process generously - thank you. However, one piece of the puzzle s=
> till eludes me, and so I am now again reaching out to the entire Cz-L Discu=
> ssion Group.
>>
>> It is to do with the so-called =93evacuations=94 to Transnistria.
>>
>> About the trains I by now know. They ran for three days shortly after the=
> formation of the ghetto in October 1941, and then again in June and Septem=
> ber 1942. This is well documented.
>>
>> What I want to know is: Between these two periods were there other evacua=
> tions, smaller perhaps, by means other than the trains?
>>
>> Were any Jews in Cz sent on the terrible Death Marches I have read about?
>>
>> If asking these questions upsets anyone - please, my most sincere apology=
> . But it is vital that my work does not misrepresent the historical facts. =
> That, I think, would be more upsetting.
>>
>> Thanks and best wishes to you all
>> Rick
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