Sarina (Sașa) Ionescu, born Feyer, was 11 years old when her family received the news of deportation from Cȃmpulung. Sasha's concern was more towards what would happen to her cat and bird. She remembered that while they were on the train, on the way to Transnistria, although they were not sure where they were going to, her father tried to teach her a few words in Ukrainian. After crossing the Dniester, they took them to a very large stable in Mogilev. An uncle of hers managed to escape and returned to take them after finding shelter with a local Jewish family.
"My cousin of five years old was walking, my grandparents were in the cart, and I remember that my father said that my responsibility is to hold my cousin by hand, so not to lose him somewhere in the mud."
The ten members of the family received approval to settle in Sargorod, a small town 60 km away from the Dniester. The transfer was made on foot, in bad October weather with rain and snow. After three days of walking, Sasha's uncle arranged with two German soldiers heading to Sargorod to take the two children with their truck. Until their family's arrival, the two children were in the care of some acquaintances from Suceava who had arrived before them.
In Sargorod, Sarina's family lived in the house of a Jewish medical assistant. The Kurman family had a daughter, Klara, a year older than Sasha. "We had a room available for all 10 of us; the hosts, who were four people, also had a room. The house was not really a palace. "
Sasha remembers that they warmed themselves with sunflower seed husks. The food was very difficult to procure, and everything they found, they overcooked, fearing of diseases. The luckiest were those who were working in kolkhozes because they managed to get some food. The survival of many Jews in Sargorod was also possible thanks to the Ukrainians transporting beets to a nearby sugar factory. The road to the factory passed through the middle of the ghetto, and the peasants made sugar beets fall from the wagons.
"Most people were feeling weak, so they were lying down a lot. Being part of the most favored category, I reached 30 kg at the age of 14. I was a sick child, and when, on my return, we stopped in Chernauti to some of my father's relatives, I got sick because I ate".
In 1999 Sarina Ionescu went on a journey through the places where Bukovinian Jews were taken during the war. She met Klara in Sargorod. She was living alone in her house, where Sarina and her family found shelter in 1941.
In the mid-2000s, Klara died, and no one lives in the Kurman family's house in Sargorod. It close to collapse. Sarina Ionescu died in 2017.