On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death.
Mr. Isaac (Itzik) Herzig took part in this journey, that journey was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
One of the places Mr. Herzig visited was Czernowitz in Bukovina. There he visited the Jewish Habad synagogue.
See pictures from the synagogue.
On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death.
Mr. Isaac (Itzik) Herzig took part in this journey, that journey was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
One of the places Mr. Herzig visited was Czernowitz in Bukovina. There he found the Jewish Cemetery.
See pictures from the cemetery, including the cemetery they held there.
On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death.
Mr. Isaac (Itzik) Herzig took part in this journey, that journey was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
One of the places that the group and Mr. Herzig visited was Bershad in Transnistria. There they visited the Jewish Cemetery, the synagogue and the memorial.
See pictures from the village, the cemetery, the synagogue and the memorial ceremony.
On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death.
Mr. Isaac (Itzik) Herzig took part in this journey, that journey was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
One of the places the group and Mr. Herzig visited was the memorial at the murder site near Czernowitz, where 400 Jews were murdered. See a pictures from the site and memorial ceremony.
On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death.
Mr. Isaac (Itzik) Herzig took part in this journey, that journey was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
One of the places Mr. Herzig visited was Davideny in Bukovina. See pictures of a typical village where Jews used to live.
On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death.
Mr. Zvika Schwartzman took part in this journey, that was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
One of the places Mr. Schwartzman visited was the Bershad Ghetto in Ukraine/Transnistria.
See a pictures of a typical house from there.
16 July 2015
Yesterday we returned from the difficult and very exciting journey to Transnistria. The journey was organized by “The World Organization of Bukovina Jews“.
We heard personal stories of those who were children and personally experienced the horrors of this (WW2) dark period. We had meetings of third and fourth-generation of holocaust survivors with places and stories where their ancestors were – remnants of a glorious Jewish culture that was destroyed and erased at once.
We (I and Yossi) went personally to the small village where Yossi’s family – his father- Kupferschmid Hersh Zvi, his mother Rene (Reiner) and his aunt Kupferschmid Loti, lived before the deportation to Transnistria – Malatinetz- MALYATYNTSI.
We had a warm meeting with the local people who tried hard to help. The villagers did not remember anything about a Jewish cemetery or synagogue in Malyatinetz
We were brought to the former school principal, Mr. Ciqevski Vasil, who is 77, retired. In other words – he was a child during the Holocaust and could not remember anything.
Then they took us to what they called “Monument Hibraiikh” (Monument of the Jews, Jew’s Monument). It is located about 5 km northwest of the village, in agricultural fields, on moderately descending slope stands a 7 branches lamp, made of concrete, about 4m high, painted in reddish-brown.
It seems clear that at the lamp base was a memory plaque, probably stating the date and event in memory of which that monument was established. We searched around and did not see the remnants of the plaque. The locals told us that the monument is in memory of local Jews from the surrounding villages that were brought to this area, murdered and buried in a mass grave at that place.
Unfortunately, our phone did not have access to the Internet and we could not connect to the network to get exact location of the scene. Nevertheless, I managed to locate (using Google map) the tree next to the monument – the GPS coordinates based on the map are:
48 ° 32’56.3 ” N 25 ° 36’28.0″ E 48.548969, 25.607771
We also took pictures of the monument.
I continued to search and found additional materials about the monument by searching about the nearest village – Siskovitz (Now called Shyshkivtsi; Please note that there are several other places with same name). Indeed, I found perfect and chilling evidence (in terms of scope) in the book “The Holocaust of Northern Bukovina Jews” about Siskovitz and Iozinetz (Yuzhynets) – the end of the two communities. (pp 536-546). It describes the massacre of the Jews, references many names and tells of the establishment of this monument in 1992, by local residents, non-Jews, who could not forget the terrible sights.
See attached Google map with Malyatinetz, Shyshkivtsi, Yuzhynets marked:
Kfir Yael and Yossi, Israel
+972-52-836-5145
16 July 2015
Yesterday we returned from the difficult and very exciting journey to Transnistria. The journey was organized by “The World Organization of Bukovina Jews“.
We heard personal stories of those who were children and personally experienced the horrors of this (WW2) dark period. We had meetings of third and fourth-generation of holocaust survivors with places and stories where their ancestors were – remnants of a glorious Jewish culture that was destroyed and erased at once.
We (I and Yossi) went personally to the small village where Yossi’s family: his father- Kupferschmid Hersh Zvi, his mother Rene (Reiner) and his aunt Kupferschmid Loti lived before the deportation to Transnistria – Malyatinetz- MALYATYNTSI.
We had a warm meeting with the local people who tried hard to help. The villagers did not remember anything about a Jewish cemetery or synagogue in Malytinetz.
We were brought to the former school principal, Mr. Ciqevski Vasil, who is 77, retired. In other words – he was a child during the Holocaust and could not remember anything.
Then they took us to a sign of what they called “Monument Hibraiikh” (Monument of the Jews, Jew’s Monument). It is located about 5 km northwest of the village, in agricultural fields, on moderately descending slope stands a 7 branches lamp, made of concrete, about 4m high, painted in reddish-brown.
It seems clear that at the lamp base was a memory plaque, probably stating the date and event in memory of which that monument was established. We searched around and did not see the remnants of the plaque. The locals told us that the monument is in memory of local Jews from the surrounding villages that were brought to this area, murdered and buried in a mass grave at that place.
Unfortunately, our phone did not have access to the Internet and we could not connect to the network to get exact location of the scene. Nevertheless, I managed to locate (using Google map) the tree next to the monument – the GPS coordinates based on the map are:
48 ° 32’56.3 ” N 25 ° 36’28.0″ E 48.548969, 25.607771
We also took pictures of the monument. They are attached hereafter.
I continued to search and found additional materials about the monument by searching about the nearest village – Siskovitz (Now called Shyshkivtsi; Please note that there are several other places with same name). Indeed, I found perfect and chilling evidence (in terms of scope) in the book “The Holocaust of Northern Bukovina Jews” about Siskovitz and Iozinetz (Yuzhynets) – the end of the two communities. (pp 536-546). It describes the massacre of the Jews, references many names and tells of the establishment of this monument in 1992, by local residents, non-Jews, who could not forget the terrible sights.
See attached Google map with Malatinetz, Shyshkivtsi, Yuzhynets marked:
Kfir Yael and Yossi, Israel
+972-52-836-5145
On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death.
Mr. Isaac (Itzik) Herzig took part in this journey, that journey was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
One of the places Mr. Herzig visited was Banila (Banylov) in Bukovina. There he found a Jewish Cemetery in the forest.
See a couple of pictures from there.
The way to the cemetery – entrance to the forest and one of the tomb-stones.
The house at the end of the trail, before entrance to the forest.
A group of people that were born in Bukovina and Bessarabia went in May 2006 to Ukraine, on a trip after the past – to visit places in Transnistria, to where the Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia were deported by the Romanians and Germans during WW2. Transnistria is located between the rivers Dniester and Bug. Jews who survived the Holocaust and arrived in Israel are looking for a way “to close the loop” and therefore come back to those places.
Dan Marian, Avraham Iwanier, Ben Artzi and Mrs. Sara Hemel took part in this journey, that was lead by Prof. Wolf Moskowitz and Mr. Eliezer Lesoboy. An article (in Hebrew) by Mrs. Sara Hemel was published on 06/06/2006 and can be found at:
http://www.tapuz.co.il/forums2008/articles/article.aspx?forumid=325&aId=72670
There is much talk about the death camp Pechera (Ukrainian), Peciora (Romanian) פצ’יורה (Hebrew), but there are very few visitors, and not many pictures. During WW2 it was a work-death camp, managed by the Germans (unlike other places in Transnistria that were managed by the Romanians).
The Jews in the camp died of hunger, thirst (although the Bug river is close, Jews were not allowed to drink its water), cold and diseases.
Before and after WW2, when the Soviets ruled the place, it was a hospital for tuberculosis patients.
Summary of the trip (in Hebrew) can be found at: 2006 Journey to Ukraine