Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te 28 o Pipiri 1940, i nohoia e te Soviet Union a Bessarabia me Northern Bukovina
I runga anō i ngā whakahau a Moscow, ka whakaurua te wāhanga raki o Bessarabia, tae atu ki te taone o Hotin ki roto i te Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. I te Hōngongoi 6, 1941, i riro ano a Hotin e nga ope Tiamana-Romanian, ka hoki ki Romania hei waahanga o te Kawana o Bukovina. I te raumati o te tau 1944, ka noho anō te ope Whero ki te rohe.