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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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>> On Jan 11, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Rick Held <rickheld08_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> Hello All
>>=20
>> 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=E2=80=99s memoi=
rs. It will be published this year, by Hachette.
>>=20
>> Over many months now, a small group of you (cc=E2=80=99ed here) has contr=
ibuted to that process generously - thank you. However, one piece of the pu=
zzle still eludes me, and so I am now again reaching out to the entire Cz-L D=
iscussion Group.
>>=20
>> It is to do with the so-called =E2=80=9Cevacuations=E2=80=9D to Transnist=
ria. =20
>>=20
>> About the trains I by now know. They ran for three days shortly after th=
e formation of the ghetto in October 1941, and then again in June and Septem=
ber 1942. This is well documented.
>>=20
>> What I want to know is: Between these two periods were there other evacua=
tions, smaller perhaps, by means other than the trains?
>>=20
>> Were any Jews in Cz sent on the terrible Death Marches I have read about?=
>>=20
>> If asking these questions upsets anyone - please, my most sincere apology=
. But it is vital that my work does not misrepresent the historical facts. T=
hat, I think, would be more upsetting.
>>=20
>> Thanks and best wishes to you all
>> Rick
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