Tag #112084 - Interview #94906 (Arkadi Yurkovetski )

Our father hired a horse-driven wagon and the four of us left the town. It was next to impossible to take a train in Zhitomir. There were crowds of people willing to get on a train. Our father decided to go to Dnepropetrovsk [420 km from Kiev] and from there go to the east by boat. There were wagons and carts jamming on the roads. There were caravans of them on all roads. When we were approaching Dnepropetrovsk there were German troops all around. Carts and wagons were turning back home. We didn’t reach Tomashpol, though. We came to Miastkovka where my father’s sister Polia lived. We stayed with her.