With her packages in tow, Sabina stumbled through the streets of the war-torn Hungarian city. The city’s public transportation had been destroyed, and buildings spewed smoke from smoldering ashes. Soldiers were still fighting, and everything was in ruins. As the train pulled into Budapest, Sabina’s eyes widened. The journey that should have been quick and easy took days. The Russians had commandeered all the others. No one else would volunteer to make the delivery, so Sabina had to go.Īfter a long search, she found a corner in one of the few available train cars. The Russians had ransacked the Hungarian city, and Richard couldn’t leave Bucharest. You walk through the streets and find girls with their throats sliced, and no one does anything!”īut Sabina knew that without supplies, the relief workers in Hungary wouldn’t be able to feed the starving Jews and Christians of Budapest. “ The Russian soldiers are hungry for women. She braced her legs against food and goods strewn around her. In 1945 on a train between Bucharest and Budapest, Sabina–the only woman on a train full of Russian soldiers–sat in a cargo car among the packages.
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