Repatriates at the USSR/Romanian Border, 1946
In March and April 1946, 10,673 people – mainly Jews from Northern Bukovina who had survived Transnistria and the Holocaust – crossed from the Soviet Union into Romania at Siret. This is the list of their names and arrival dates.
Browse the list by the first letter of the surname or by arrival date below. On any page, use your browser’s find function (Ctrl+F) to look for a name.
Browse by surname
- A275 names
- B883 names
- C77 names
- D299 names
- E325 names
- F584 names
- G911 names
- H687 names
- I93 names
- J49 names
- K988 names
- L558 names
- M521 names
- N121 names
- O45 names
- P268 names
- R824 names
- S1936 names
- T303 names
- U17 names
- V36 names
- W684 names
- Z189 names
Browse by arrival date
Each day is listed in the order of the original list, so families and people who travelled together appear together.
- 7 Mar137 people
- 8 Mar168 people
- 9 Mar62 people
- 10 Mar168 people
- 11 Mar78 people
- 12 Mar178 people
- 13 Mar248 people
- 14 Mar299 people
- 15 Mar401 people
- 16 Mar444 people
- 17 Mar747 people
- 18 Mar149 people
- 19 Mar276 people
- 20 Mar427 people
- 21 Mar335 people
- 22 Mar362 people
- 23 Mar144 people
- 24 Mar594 people
- 25 Mar47 people
- 26 Mar1013 people
- 27 Mar504 people
- 28 Mar313 people
- 29 Mar536 people
- 30 Mar234 people
- 31 Mar269 people
- 1 Apr127 people
- 2 Apr273 people
- 3 Apr200 people
- 4 Apr140 people
- 5 Apr150 people
- 6 Apr96 people
- 7 Apr154 people
- 8 Apr88 people
- 9 Apr112 people
- 10 Apr101 people
- 11 Apr150 people
- 12 Apr99 people
- 13 Apr100 people
- 14 Apr100 people
- 15 Apr80 people
- 16 Apr80 people
- 17 Apr70 people
- 18 Apr120 people
- 19 Apr120 people
- 20 Apr80 people
- 21 Apr50 people
- 22 Apr50 people
Background
Under an agreement between Romania and the Soviet Union, some 15,000 Romanian citizens were repatriated from the USSR in spring 1946 through the border checkpoint of Tereblecea–Siret. On 16 March 1946 the prefect of Rădăuți County, A. Apati, forbade the inhabitants of the town and county to take in any repatriate, “even closely relatives or acquaintances”: by order of the Ministry of the Interior they were to be sent inland, and settling in the border area was not allowed. A circular of the Ministry of the Interior dated 25 April 1946 told the authorities to receive the repatriates as Romanian citizens and to help them find housing and work.
The full text of both documents, in English translation, is on Edgar Hauster’s blog: Repatriates at the USSR/Romanian Border – March/April 1946. For the historical context, see Mordechai Altshuler, “The Soviet ‘Transfer’ of Jews from Chernovtsy Province to Romania, 1945–1946”, Jews in Eastern Europe 2 [36] (1998), 54–75.
About the list
Names are given as transcribed from the original lists, in their Romanian or German spellings. “No.” is the person’s position in the list, which follows the order of arrival. One obvious typing error was corrected (Kreisberger).