Re: [Cz-L] 29 of March 1944

If I have written about my experience of the entrance
of the Soviet army into Czernowitz in March 1944,
do not read further, but if I have not, here is what I remember:
it was a relatively warm and sunny day, my parents and I
with hundreds of other people, lined the Siebenburger
Strasse in the vicinity of the Volksgarten as a convoy of lorries
drove slowly by. Russian soldiers stood in the lorries
and threw candies to the children, calling: Malchik or dyevushka
to the boys and girls in the crowd.
The crowd, mostly Jewish, was ecstatic and no wonder.
Forgotten were the deportations to Siberia in 1940-1941.
Finally the war was over for us, no yellow star, no fear of death,
or deportation to Transnistria. We had seen the German troops
fleeing from Stalingrad, we had worried that they would take over
from the Romanians, but the only frightening thing they did,
was to blow up in the center of town, a car loaded with ammunition,
which had run out of gasoline so that it would not fall into the hands
of the Russians.
My family and I lived next door to the Casserna and for a week,
or longer we had been worried that either the Russians
or the Romanians, would blow the building up, blowing us up too.
But here were our "liberators".
The passover of 1944, just a few days after the liberation,
was celebrated modestly, but we had Matzah Shmurah,
called in Yiddish "Shmireh".
Where it came from, or how old it was, I do not know.

Mimi

On Mar 29, 2013, at 8:20 AM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

> Today is the 69-th anniversary of the liberation of Czernowitz:
> http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chernovstepan/
> 43582536/111137/111137_original.jpg
>
> Glory to the Red Army !!
> Hardy

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