Transnistria – Page 2 – Bukovina Jewish Heritage Sites

Kopaygorod Mass Grave – by Mr. Zvika Schwartzman

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 Kopaygorod in Ukraine/Transnistria, where they saw the Mass Grave of Jews that were murdered there.
See a picture of the Mass Grave Memorial.

Mogilev Podolski – Memorial Ceremony on the Dniester – by Isaac Herzig

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 Mogilev Podolsky in Transnistria – on the Dniester River – where many Jews were murdered. There the group held a memorial ceremony to the Jews that were murdered during WW2.
See pictures from the ceremony.

Bershad – the village, Jewish cemetery synagogue and memorial – by Isaac Herzig

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.

Bershad Ghetto – by Mr. Zvika Schwartzman

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.

Pechera (Peciora) Mass Grave – by Dan Marian

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.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — A fountain into which the bodies were thrown into

Summary of the trip (in Hebrew) can be found at: 2006 Journey to Ukraine

Michailovka Concentration Camp – by Christian Herrmann

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Many thanks to Christian Herrmann who is researching, traveling, photographing and providing very valuable information about many Jewish Heritage Sites in Bukovina, Transnistria and Bessarabia.

Here are pictures provided by Christian – who visited the Jewish Cemetery in June 2015.

Mogilev Podolski Jewish Cemetery – by Christian Herrmann

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Many thanks to Christian Herrmann who is researching, traveling, photographing and providing very valuable information about many Jewish Heritage Sites in Bukovina, Transnistria and Bessarabia.

Here are pictures provided by Christian – who visited the Jewish Cemetery in June 2015.

Carieră de piatră – by Christian Herrmann

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Many thanks to Christian Herrmann who is researching, traveling, photographing and providing very valuable information about many Jewish Heritage Sites in Bukovina, Transnistria and Bessarabia.

Cariera de Piatra – Romanian for stone quarry – was a Romanian concentration camp near the village of Ladyzhyn, were Jews – mainly from Czernowitz and Dorohoi – were forced to work. Sylvia (who traveled with Christian) believes that her mother was a temporarily inmate here. The living conditions in the camp were known as especially brutal and humiliating.

Here are pictures of Cariera de Piatra, provided by Christian – who visited the place in June 2015.

Bershad Jewish Memorial – by Kate Power

Bershad is a town in western Ukraine.

[From JewishGen]: The Ukrainian village of Bershad had the tragic fame of holding first place among the murder camps for Jews of Bukovina and Bessarabia in Transnistria, for the number of victims as well as in view of the animalization of the German and Romanian officials whose sadistic barbarity by chance was exercised the most here.

The following pictures of the Bershad Holocaust Memorial were provided by
Mrs. Kate Powers. Thanks.