Hello All,
I too had relatives who lived in Zastavna and from them I heard that they
Were deported on foot. An actually terrible incident is tied to their story;
They had three small children, the youngest a baby. when they realized that
They could not carry all children, they decided to wrap the baby in warm blankets
And leave it behind at the side of the road. after walking for a while, the mother
Felt terrible regret and went back to pick up the baby. It was still there,
where she had left it.They eventually managed to get to Transnistria with all three children,
But all the children died in Transnistria. The parents survived and later had two more sons.
The sons also had children, I believe six or seven and as far as I know they are all well.
Mimi
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On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:52 PM, Dana Dimitriu <dana.dimitriu_at_web.de> wrote:
> --Apple-Mail-356E6B29-69F9-4265-B9CF-73F7185AE9EF
>
> Hello Rick,
>
> My grandfather=E2=80=98s youngest sister, Edith Tamler (born 1921), relates i=
> n her testimony to Yad Vashem that from Zastavna, where she was living at th=
> e time, people were deported on foot. There were some carts, yes. But the co=
> rtege was moving at walking speed, as most people would have been on foot. W=
> hen they arrived on the banks of the Dniestr river, they were stripped of al=
> l documents before crossing over. Loads of people drowned - as there was no p=
> roper bridge, but rather an improvisation of rickety, wooden boats or simila=
> r bound to one another to allow crossing over to the other side.=20
>
> If you take into consideration that we are talking about roughly 200 km, roa=
> ds must have been very primitive in the area (many still are), that it was l=
> ate autumn 1941 (later to become one of the coldest winters during the war),=
> and it must have been terribly muddy and tedious to move forward, it is no w=
> onder it took an eternity to get to the river Dniestr.
>
> Edith could have actually stayed behind - as she had recently married a Chri=
> stian. But when her mother (a widow), as well as her uncle (one of her mothe=
> r=E2=80=99s brothers) with his wife and two children were deported, she deci=
> ded to go with them, to take care of her mother. She was the only one to sur=
> vive, in spite of falling ill with typhus.=20
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dana
>
> Dana Dimitriu
> Wiesbaden, Germany
> dana.dimitriu_at_web.de
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