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From: "Ellen Shindelman Kowitt" <>
Subject: [BERDICHEV] 1941 in berdichev
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:08:22 -0600
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To answer Charlene Finn's question about whether Jews got out of Berdichev
in 1941. The answer is yes. Since I will be publishing my own family story
in book form, I will give you the short story here. My great aunt fled
Berdichev sometime during the last week of June or first week of July in
1941 by freight train to Kazakstan where she remained for the next 5-6
years. She told me this and talked about the "cattle car" being totally
packed and only getting food and water when the train stopped along the way
because locals would pass bread and water into the crowd. She was afraid to
get off because the train would sometimes leave people behind when it left.
People died on the train. She, her infant daughter, and elderly mother (my
ggm) survived.

Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
Denver

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