Memorial plaque in Chernivtsi on the wall near the place, where the entrance to the Chernivtsi ghetto used to be (crossroads of Sahaidachnogo and Haharina Streets).
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.
Memorial plaque to Jewish victims of the village Hlynytsia – one of the latest, which was installed in the Chernivtsi oblast.
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.
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. Ptachia Menkin and Mrs. Bruria Menkin 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. The Menkins also visited this area previously in 2013, 2011 and 2005.
One of the places they visited was Tzibulevka in Transnistria, where they saw 3 monuments on the mass grave of Jews murdered in WWII. Among those victims were Bruria’s grand parents – Israel and Brana Margulis from Siret. Bruria’s mother has always cried that there is no grave of her beloved parents and finding this mass-grave has resolved her sorrow.
The monuments are in a corn field, approximately 1 Km from the village. Two monuments are close to each other and one is 50m away. The monuments are built on a stone basis.
Please note that there are 2 villages – Old and New Tzibulevka (Staraya Tzibulevka, Novaya Tzibulevka).
See below a map of the area and pictures of the monuments and visit also http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=871 .
In July 2015 I attended “The journey on the path of Romanian Jews Holocaust and the valley of death – Transnistria”. In 2006, I also participated in a “Roots journey” to North Bukovina, that was organized by Mr. Danny Marian.
I think the current trip is the first historical event (and hopefully not the last !).
The mass murder of North Bukovina and Bessarabia Jews was in July 1941, in which approximately 120,000 Jews were murdered.
The Village Chudey (Czudyn)
In early July 1941, all Jews in the Northern Bukovina village Chudey were murdered by the Romanian army.
In this journey, I felt it is a sacred duty to locate the place of the murder of the Chudey and Budinetz Jews.
Budinetz (Budineti)
Just a few kilometers from Chudey, along the road bordering the woods, we saw a Star of David (Magen David) made of concrete, with a sign – a small plaque in memory of the murder site. Further details are in the file in the link below.
The murder site of Budinetz Jews
In July 2015 I attended “The journey on the path of Romanian Jews Holocaust and the valley of death – Transnistria”. In 2006, I also participated in a “Roots journey” to North Bukovina, that was organized by Mr. Danny Marian.
I think the current trip is the first historical event (and hopefully not the last !).
The mass murder of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia Jews was conducted in July 1941, in which approximately 120,000 Jews were murdered.
The Village Chudey (Czudyn)
In early July 1941, all Jews in the Northern Bukovina village Chudey were murdered by the Romanian army.
In this journey, I felt it is a sacred duty to locate the place of the murder of the Chudey Jews. On July 10th 2015 I hired a taxi (a Hebrew-speaking driver) in Czernowitz and after a few hours ride and searches we got to the murder site, in the center of the village / town. Many of the village residents did not know or want to provide information about the murder site.
Our findings are detailed in the attached file:
1. Photos from murder site.
2. The building that housed the court house – the “GERICHT” and the prison.
The Jews were assembled in this village and killed.
Dr. Fanny Wald, in her book “My victory – Memories”, in the chapter “The Romanians return to control of our region“, in pages 23-34 – “Pogrom” mentions this event. and brings a very important and exclusive testimony about this event. This book was published by her family in a limited edition.
Note: The 2015 Yad Vashem work plan included publication of the book (it was budgeted), and its publication is still under review.
See more in the following link.
The murder site of Chudey
and the house of Dr. Fanny Wald.
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.
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
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
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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