Tag #147679 - Interview #94561 (Zinoviy Rukinglaz )

When the soviet troops came to Bessarabia [19] in 1940 Gitl’s father Moisey was arrested under the charges that he house the Romanian army headquarters in his restaurant. Miron’s wife Anna Palker worked with communists in the underground and he didn’t suffer the arrest. During the soviet regime Anna became a Minister in Moldova. Moisey, Gitl and Ziama were exiled to the Ural. Moisey was put in a camp, and the children were taken to different children’s homes. Gitl was taken to the children’s home in Lialia town near Cheliabinsk [3500 km from Kiev]. Moisey wasn’t kept in the camp for long. In 1942 he was released and sent to work at a military plant in Sverdlovsk.