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My father was hiding in the basement of our house since the day of mass shooting. He only came out at night. My mother began to wash clothes for Germans from the commander office: Erwin and Theo. They brought dirty underwear and soap and came to pick it on a next day. It goes without saying they didn’t pay for this work. Once my father somehow came out when they were in the house. They grabbed him saying that he was a communist and a partisan hiding in our house. My mother was trying to tell them that he was her husband, but they didn’t believe her. They took him to the commander’s office. I ran after them. They turned back and shot at me several times, but missed. It was Sunday and the locals were in church. Germans took my father to the central square asking people whether they knew him. They said that yes, they knew him and he had never been a communist. They kept our father in the commander office for few hours and then released him. He had to come to register at the commander’s office every evening. In a month the Germans left and were replaced by Romanians, which battled on the party of Germany.
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Interview
Arkadi Yurkovetski