While the Krasna able-bodied men served in the war, the aged, the women and children faced the flight to survive after the Eastern Front collapsed in January of 1945.
Just like the rest of the German population in the east of the Reich had to flee at the beginning of the second half of January 1945 as the front advanced, the Bessarabia settlers had to flee, as well. Groups started up everywhere and traveled through the brutal cold, through ice and snow of this especially harsh winter of 1945, (temperatures dropped up to minus 20 centigrade) in a westerly direction.
Much family drama happened. Mothers were separated from children, families torn apart. Many died fleeing. Others were captured and deported to Siberia. It was especially hard for the women, who were raped by Soviet soldiers.

The majority of Krasna people arrived in the western part of Germany after several weeks traveling in convoys. Shortly before the end of the war they arrived in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) about north of the line Oldenburg-Osnabrück-Göttingen.

After the war, aside from looking for relatives and friends from the former village community, the Krasna people had to find a new home. Some found it in the places in which they had first arrived, but for most there was no way of making a living. Others wanted to go to a Catholic region. So, many Krasna people and people from the other Catholic communities of Bessarabia (Emmental, Larga, Balmas) soon after the war left North Germany (Schleswig Holstein, Niedersachsen) and headed southwest to the northern region (Catholic) Rheinland Pfalz (Rhineland Palatinate).
The last of the generation to experience Krasna and especially their descendants are fully integrated in their new home.
Even today (2007), after more than 65 years of losing the homeland, the Krasna people and their descendants still adhere to their old customs and traditions.

Already in the 1950’s, the Landsmannschaft der Bessarabiendeutschen Rheinland Pfalz (Association of Fellow Countrymen from Bessarabia in Rhineland Palatinate) was established, organizing regular meetings and presentations. A few years later, the Kulturkreis der Bessarabiendeutschen (Cultural Circle of Bessarabian Germans) was established. Both groups have established contacts with the old homeland and organized trips there and continue planning such.
See 8.4, Fleeing the Red Army and New Beginnings after the War

Many people from Krasna have visited their former homeland since and established contact with the people living there now. A chapel at the cemetery of Krasna and a memorial are reminders of the former German inhabitants.
See 9, The Village of Krasna since the German Exodus until Today