Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz after liberation

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Just to add to what Alfred Schneider wrote:

> The memories of many of my generation of survivors from Czernowitz have been
> dominated by two contradictory reactions: gratitude to the brave soldiers
> who liberated us and made our survival possible and abhorrence with the
> cruelties of the Stalinist regime.

I was almost seven years old when the Russian soldiers entered Czernowitz.
It was a sunny beautiful day, unusually warm for that time of year.
We all stood on the Str. Stefan cel Mare and cheered the soldiers riding in
the open trucks. They in turn threw candy to the children in the crowd and
yelled "malchik" or "dyevushka" as the case warranted. Shortly after, they
opened the Yiddish school and I was finally allowed to be a pupil.
At the same time one of my uncles and another relative who had just returned
 from Transnistria were drafted into the army put on a train and sent to the
front. The train was bombed and many of the survivors of Transnistria were
killed. Among them my relative Pinchas Weisselberg.

Mimi


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