Re: [Cz-L] Bricha

Here is another story:
My father was recruited in the Russian Army, as soon as we were liberated in Moghilev-Podolsk,in the spring of 1944. My mother and I returned on foot to Czernowitz and, then went to Romania in the winter of 1945.
My father, fortunately survived, was discharged and returned to us in Bucharest in 1945, after the war had ended.

Felix

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On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Irene Fishler <irenef_at_netvision.net.il> wrote:

> Great stories, Mordecai.
>
> There is enough material for two more books about Czernowitzers
>
> There must be some consolation for your friend : not many fathers died as
> fighting sodiers during those years.
>
> I think it is also important to all of us to gather more information about
> "our" fighters - be it in WW2 with the Russian or American or French
> Armies,or with Partisans , or in Spain for the Republicans, or, of course in
> Israel's independence war. Yes, it gives us proud and is easier to tell the
> next generations...
>
> So, Mordecai can you publish the stories on Ehpes?
>
> Best Regards,
> Irene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-75437109-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-75437109-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
> lapidotm_at_inter.net.il
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> To: Miriam Taylor
> Cc: Abraham Kogan; 'cornel fleming'; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Bricha
>
> Dear Miriam,
>
> Our paths crossed.
>
> 1. My cousin, Marcu Drapel then, was one of the children in that transport,
> and spent quite a while in the Appeldoorn camp with you (before joining us
> in Israel). He is a Czernowitzer, of course, so you were at least two there.
> He is away this week, and I will advise him upon his return, in case he may
> wish to contact you. He was 11 at the time. He went on that transport from
> Craiova, where we spent two years from May 1945 to September 1947, after
> "repatriation" from "Czernovtsy"
>
> Unfortunately, by the time we had reached Craiova, his father, who had been
> mobilised by the Red Army when they arrived in Czernowitz in 1944, had
> fallen on the steps of the Reichstag. He had been a mortar-operator in the
> famous 380th Rifle-Regiment, of the 171st Rifle-Division, of Zhukov's 3rd
> Shock-Army, that was assigned the dubitable "honour" (many Regiment
> commanders fought for this "honour") to storm the Reichstag on on the 30th
> April 1945 (it fell the next day, at heavy losses to that regiment, and a
> red flag was raised on the roof early 1st May morning, in time for the
> parade in Moscow) together with another regiment (the 756th of the 150th
> Rifle-Division of that same 3rd Shock-Army). Hitler, as we know, committed
> suicide on that very day, a few scores of meters away. So my cousin never
> saw his father again after having been separated from him in 1944. There is
> not much consolation in knowing that his father was one of the few Jews who
> survived the Shoah under Fascist occupation, and lived to take full revenge
> and fight victoriously all along East Germany, until actually storming the
> Nazi citadel, the event that marked the end of Nazi rule in Europe.
>
> 2. My parents too were on one of the Pans, jointly with yours. As you know,
> they arrived on 1st January 1948 morning, whereas I had left the night
> before for Palestine, having been interned there for over 3 months (I was a
> Maapil on the Haganah ship "Medinat Hayehudim" that left Burgas harbour erev
> Yom Kippur 1947, and was captured by the British navy, after some struggle,
> on Hol-Hamoed Succot). They were able (it was not an easy matter, because
> the British allowed only quite elderly inmates to immigrate to the newly
> established state, so they added 10 years to their age) to leave Cyprus for
> Israel on the day after its establishment (on 15 May afternoon). It was
> Shabbat and they saw large fires in Tel-Aviv harbour (the result of the
> first raid of the Egyptian bombers on Tel-Aviv) and when questioning the
> Madrichim they were told that these were bonfires lit in their honour...Thus
> I was fortunate to meet them that Motzaei Shabbat, after a separation of
> only 8 months.
>
> Could you have a look at the photos you mentioned and see if there is a Frau
> or Herr Lapides there?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mordecai Lapidot

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