Synagogue – Page 2 – Bukovina Jewish Heritage Sites

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).

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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.
https://plus.google.com/photos/112670006006477273637/albums/6182738066484642577?gpinv=AMIXal9mJIClswN7Y6F9TdYHlAEy1yC0lNJLfbnRYphUHlz1syNL6uwgHVuo1n-r7vE7vVnVLj4BUCVK3MwmE_mOvZJMUbNk9YDP_oOCAd2fUu_lrDmxsD4&cfem=1

Vatra Dornei Wiznitzer Synagogue – by Bruria & Ptachia Menkin

Mr. Ptachia Menkin and Mrs. Bruria Menkin took part in the July 2015 journey, on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death, that was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews. The Menkins also visited this area previously in 2011 and 2005.

One of the places they visited in over the years was the Wiznitzer Synagogue in Vatra Dornei in Romania.
See below pictures from the synagogue visit in 2011.

Vatra Dornei Jewish Synagogue – by Bruria & Ptachia Menkin

One of the places they visited in over the years was the Synagogue in Vatra Dornei in Romania.
“Vatra Dornei is the town where we were born”.
See below pictures from the synagogue from 2011, 2005 and 1958 and compare…..
1958

“This picture (from 1958) was taken with the synagogue in the background – a short time before we immigrated to Israel. you can see there my parents – Shimon and Dina Rand, my sisters Esti (Shecter), Miriam (Farbstein) and me – Bruria”.

2005

2011

Storozhynetz Synagogue – by Ptachia & Bruria Menkin

One of the places they visited in 2015 was the Synagogue in Storozhynetz, now Ukraine.
See below pictures from 2015 from the Synagogue.

Siret Synagogue – by Ptachia & Bruria Menkin

One of the places they visited in 2015 was the Synagogue in Siret in Romania. “This synagogue is where my grandfather – Israel Margulies – used to pray. He and his family are commemorated on the memorial plaque in the synagogue”.
See below pictures from 2015 from the Synagogue, including the commemoration plaques.

Radautz Synagogue – by Ptachia & Bruria Menkin

One of the places they visited in 2005 was the Synagogue in Radautz in Romania.
See below pictures from 2005 from the Synagogue.

Gura Humorului Synagogue – by Ptachia & Bruria Menkin

One of the places they visited in 2011 was the Synagogue in Gura Humorului in Romania.
See below pictures from 2011 from the Synagogue.

Bershad Synagogue – by Edgar Hauster

In July 2015 Edgar Hauster took his motorcycle ride for his “Motorcycle Ride to Czernowitz via Istanbul”. Amongst many places he visited on this long trip was the Bershad Synagogue. He wrote – A picture paints a thousand words. What about more than one thousand one hundred pictures? Let me share with all of you the “Photographic Supplement to my Motorcycle Ride to Czernowitz via Istanbul“.
All his pictures taken in Bershad are at:
http://1drv.ms/1IYuKe3

Here are part of those pictures.

Czernowitz ‘Groise Shil’ (Big Synagogue) – by Arthur Rindner

July 2015

On a waking tour in Czernowitz, organized by Christian Herrmann, with the SVIT (Solidarity Volunteering Initiative Tolerance) in Czernowitz, visiting the Jewish remaining points of interest we saw the “Groise Shil” Synagogue.
GPS Location: N48.2969 E25.9396.

Czernowitz Korn Shil (Synagogue) – by Arthur Rindner

July 2015

On a waking tour in Czernowitz, organized by Christian Herrmann, with the SVIT (Solidarity Volunteering Initiative Tolerance) in Czernowitz, visiting the Jewish remaining points of interest we saw the “Korn Shil” Synagogue.
GPS Location: N48.2919, E25.9423.

See pictures.