High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Frimtzis - Born 1930, Robert Frimtzis, the author of From Tajikistan to the Moon – a memoir, lived in B?l?i formerly Bessarabia, now Moldova. In June 1941, at the age of ten his peaceful town was destroyed by the Nazi Luftwaffe and he survived the ravages of World War II by running for 3000 miles across Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan to Tajikistan. Hunger forced him to quit school and get his first full-time job at the age of twelve, while his father, mobilized into the Red Army fought in the fierce battles to defend Stalingrad where he was wounded. To escape from Soviet anti-Semitism and get to America, Robert crossed many borders illegally. From the Soviet Union he crossed into Romania where he unsuccessfully tried to reach Palestine. From Romania into Hungary, then Austria, and to reach Italy he crossed the Alps twice by foot. In the DP camps in Cremona, Italy, he discovered ORT schools, where he and two others, out of 400 applicants throughout Italy, were accepted into the Central ORT Institute in Anieres near Geneva, Switzerland.

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