As far as I know, the Jews who were deported from Czernowitz to Transnistria,
All were deported by train. from the smaller towns in Bucovina, like Sniatin, Zastavna,
They marched on foot. And here I would like to tell about an unusual incident:
My paternal grandmother and three of my aunts were all taken to the train station
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 started 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 not 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 lived 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 they waited.
Mimi
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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 fiction, set in Cz during the war years. It is based on my father’s memoirs. It will be published this year, by Hachette.
>
> Over many months now, a small group of you (cc’ed here) has contributed to that process generously - thank you. However, one piece of the puzzle still eludes me, and so I am now again reaching out to the entire Cz-L Discussion Group.
>
> It is to do with the so-called “evacuations” 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 September 1942. This is well documented.
>
> What I want to know is: Between these two periods were there other evacuations, 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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