Drazhinets (Drachyntsi) Jewish Memorial – 14 July 2016 – by Baruch Eylon

On 11-15 July 2016 a delegation of the World Organization of Bukovina Jews traveled to North Bukovina for a pilot project to survey Jewish Heritage Sites in the area around Storozhynetz. The team members were Sara Sweiry, Nathan Kinsbrunner and Baruch Eylon.

During this trip the team surveyed 12 heritage sites, met with local officials, filled the questionnaire (using a mobile application that allows capturing text and pictures, including GPS coordinates) and posted the information on the web, to make it available to all interested people around the world.

The team also prepared recommendations what to do in each site.
The filled survey about this site can be seen at

http://gazpacho.netalizer.co.il/gazpachoNG/#/public-report/5575522/17992/58Z2KW1Z9C?l=he-il

This post provides pictures taken by the team at the Drazhinets (Drachyntsi) Jewish Memorial for the Drazhinets Jews that were murdered there in WWII . The memorial is located in the fields far from the village, near a garbage dump.
The memorial was built by the authorities approximately in 2006.

Here are the pictures from there – the municipality, the team, the memorial part of which is falling, and a local person that was sent with us to show us where it is.
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Drachyntsi Memorial Plaque – provided by The Chernivtsi Museum of the History and Culture of Bukovinian Jews

Memorial plaque at the site where Jewish inhabitants of the village Drachyntsi were killed.

Source: The Chernivtsi Museum of the History and Culture of Bukovinian Jews.

Provided by Mrs. Anna Yamchuk, PR and Programme Manager,
The Chernivtsi Museum of the History and Culture of Bukovinian Jews.

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