Category: Campolung

Shargorod Memorial – 8/2017 – by Josef (Julku) Klein

This memorial was erected at the Shargorod Cemetery. It was the initiative of and funding by the engineer Mr. Rubin (Bubby) Laufman, a native of Kimpolung, in memory of his father Zeev (Wilhelm) Laufman and his grandmother Sarah and his grandfather Joseph, and not less important, to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from the communities of Kimpolung-Bukovina and the surrounding area, who were deported to Transnistria, to the Shargorod ghetto, during World War II, where they perished from illnesses, cold, hunger and endless marches in Ukranian roads. Some of them were buried on the site as individuals, but most of them were buried in a mass grave in the Shargorod cemetery.

Here is an article (in German) written by Mr. Klein and 3 pictures taken during the dedication ceremony.

Shargorod monument

     

75 Years Commemoration – Campulung Moldovenesc Synagogue – 10/2016 – by Adina Babeş

In the fall of 1941, following the order of Ion Antonescu govenrment, 91,845 of Jews from Bukovina were deported. From 9th until the 15 of October 1941, from the train stations of Suceava, Gura Humorului, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Vatra Dornei and Rădăuți, men, women, children were sent to Transnistria. Most of them died there, executed, or from epidemics, cold and starvation.

This year, we commemorate 75 years since this dark chapter of Romanian history. To honor the memory of the victims, commemorative plaques were placed on the facades of the train station from where the trains left to Transnistria.

This is a project of Federation of Communities of Romanian Jews and Elie Wiesel National institute for the study of Holocaust in Romania.

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Campulung (Kimpolung) Jewish Synagogues – by Mr. Joseph Klein (Iulku)

Mr. Joseph Klein is from Campulung (Kimpolung) and after a Root’s Journey to his home-town (in the early 2000’s), he (the Chair), and the Board of Directors of the Jewish community in Campulung and surroundings have decided and in 2003 have published a book  to document the Jewish life there. The book is in Hebrew and is called:

Kimpolung-Bukowina and Surroundings
A Memorial of the Jewish Community

The section about Religion and Tradion in Campulung was written by Joseph (Iulku) Klein and is in Pages 61-62 of Volume A of the book. It describes 5 different synagogues that existed in Campolung. The section with this information is (in Hebrew) in the link below (page numbers are at the bottom of each page).

Kimpolung P.071_098

Mr. Itzhak Avraham visited Campulung and took pictures of the synagogue. One of the lamps hanging in the synagogue was donated by his father, whose name is written (in Hebrew) on the lampshade.

You can see the picture in the link below.
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Campulung (Kimpolung) Jewish Cemetery – by Mr. Joseph Klein (Iulku)

Mr. Joseph Klein is from Campulung and after a Root’s Journey to his home-town (in the early 2000’s), he (the Chair), Eng. E. Spetter and the Board of Directors of the Jewish community in Campolung and surroundings have decided to document the Jewish cemetery there.

They hired a local person who prepared a diagram of the cemetery (3 pages, holding 976 graves), gave numbers to each grave and then prepared a table listing the grave number, the name of the person buried and the year of death. The list has 6 pages.

If you are looking for a specific person’s grave, find his/her name in the table, get the grave number and with that number, find it in the cemetery map.

Both diagrams and lists are sorted by grave number.

Unfortunately the documents – diagrams and lists – are not the originals thus their quality is not very high, but it’s good enough to help people locate their loved ones.

The diagrams and lists can be found in the link below.

Campolung Cemetery

People that read Hebrew and have interest in this area may want to look at the excerpts of the book about this community. See 3 parts of it in the links below.

Kimpolung P.001_012 Kimpolung P.071_098 Kimpolung P.500_504