Tag #120978 - Interview #102368 (Solomon Meir)

We were freed by the Soviet army on 7th April 1944. A month or two before the Russians came, or was it a week – I don’t remember exactly –, the Christians who lived in our house left, they were evacuated. Or perhaps they moved to another place, somewhere else in Romania, I couldn’t say. But the majority of Romanians who were employed in state institutions in Botosani moved to Oltenia, in the area around Bucharest. For instance, those who worked at the post office, at CFR, at… And that’s when we moved back in our house. If the Russians arrived on April 7, we moved back in our house around April 10. For there was great bustle around the city, with army troops, we couldn’t move about the city right away. We found very few things inside the house. For we had no room to store our things where we moved, and they were destroyed.