Mr. Dan Marian provided the following article and pictures, published in the Storozhynetz local press.
Today, 11 July 2015, 10 Israeli Jews visited Storozhynets in the framework of the Day of Honouring the Memory of Bukovina Jews. They were born in Storozhynets or are persons whose relatives left the town some time ago, or at the start of World War 2.Within this framework 88, persons came to Chernivtsi.
In Storozhynets the guests visited the building of the former synagogue and the
Yu Fedkovych park, where the memorial of the fallen in World War II is situated. They also visited the way to the train station.
One of the guests, Dan Marian, spoke about the Jewish ghetto in the street I. Vilde.
Then the guests went to the Storozhynets school number 1, where a gymnasium was in the 1940s. The head of the received from the school, as a present, books on the town history and the school history. The head of the group, Marian Dan said that five days ago was his birthday and it’s probably his best present in the last 60 years.
The Jews visited also the Jewish cemetery, stopping before at the house on the Chernivtsi street, where Dan Marian was born. While at the cemetery, they spoke with the people who take care of it and thanked them. In general, the guests had a very positive impression of our town. In the evening they returned to Chernivtsi for a rest.
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