Tag #129137 - Interview #78031 (Arnold Leinweber)

Moritz Leinweber, my brother, went to Transnistria [14], but his lot wasn’t thrown in a concentration camp, like the people from Bessarabia and Bucovina [15] and those from Northern Moldavia [16]. They remained under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Army. They were deported in 1942, which means that they spent almost 2 years there. My mother managed to send him some clothing through the liaison man at the drafting center. That character had his share of the deal, but he was a decent man, and, thanks to him, we were able to keep in touch with Moritz. The members of the lot were repatriated in an organized manner. Many of them scattered around the city of Iasi because they were afraid the Russians would seize them and send them to the front. They got to Bucharest after 23rd August [1944] [17], with a great delay, because they had taken detours and had traveled at night in order to avoid the Russians, who were approaching the capital too.