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Gender as Survival: Women's Experiences of Deportation from Romania to the Soviet Union, 1945–1950

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Jill Massino
Jill Massino*
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Rice Hall 311, History Department, Oberlin College, OH 44074, USA. Email: jmassino@bowdoin.edu
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And the second day my mother came with my brother and my sister and they brought food because we didn't have anything, and she kept on shouting “Sofi, Sofi, Sofi” … there was an entire convoy, many wagons, and they had those small kind of windows like for animals … and she kept yelling,… “Sofi, Sofi, Misi, Misi” … a military man was there, at the door, and I pleaded with the officer “Please, let our mother give me some food because we have nothing” and he opened the door a tiny bit so we could pull the sack with everything through … and the next day they took us … they took us … they said they were taking us to Siberia but they took us to Donbass, and there, in Donbass, they put us in a camp.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 55 - 83
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