Handing over Bessarabia to the Russians
27th June 1940. A beautiful, serene, peaceful, joyful day came to an end. 5 o’clock in the evening. I was staying with my 13-year-old son with my relatives, my husband’s brother, a priest, in a village 25 km from the town where we lived and where we were spending our holidays. We turned on the radio as usual to listen to the news, but we were terrified. We heard the trembling voice of King Charles: “Dear Bessarabians, a great calamity has struck our country. The Russians are demanding the surrender of Bessarabia. We have no power to resist them. I […]