Ukraine – Page 10 – Bukovina Jewish Heritage Sites

Czernowitz New 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.

Czernowitz is a regional capital and is inseparably tied to the history of the region. One who has experienced the city with his heart, who hailed the growth of the city and mourned its fall will endorse this attempt.
Czernowitz is located in the Chernivtsi County, Ukraine. It was the capital of Bukovina. This city was known as a “Little Vienna”.

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.

Bratslav 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.

Bratslav (Breslov) is the origin of one of the most famous Hasidic dynasties. Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav was a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, and one of the major spiritual Jewish leaders of his time. He died not in Bratslav but in Uman where he was also buried. Nevertheless Bratslav is an important target for Hasidic pilgrims. Thousands visit the town and the Jewish cemetery with its gravestones – dating back to the 18th century – every year, especially those who make a pilgrimage to the grave of rabbi Nathan Sternhartz (Nathan of Breslov), a student of rabbi Nachman. The cemetery is located on the banks of river Bug and offers spectacular views.

We walked along river Bug and visited the synagogue, which has recently been returned to the Jewish community. Over decades it was part of a brewery, soon it will be a synagogue again. At the cemetery we saw a well organised infrastructure for pilgrims. There is a gift shop and we saw Hasidic pilgrims arrive.

Here are pictures of the Jewish Cemetery in Bratslav, 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.

Bershad Cemetery – by Kate Power

Bershad is a town in western Ukraine.

The following pictures of the Bershad Jewish Cemetery were provided by
Mrs. Kate Powers. Thanks.

Mogilev Podolski – Pictures of Monuments – by Kate Power

Mogilev Podolski is a town in Ukraine, on the Dnieper River. In the holocaust it was one the big detention places to where Bukovina Jews were deported. There is in the town a big Jewish Cemetery from WW-II as well as a Jewish Museum and several monuments.

The following pictures were provided by Mrs. Kate Power.

Yaruha (near Mogilev Podolski) – Pictures by Kate Power

Yaruha is a village in western Ukraine, 27 Km south east to Mogilev Podolski, not far from the Dniester river.

The following pictures were provided by Mrs. Kate Power. P1140345 P1140347

Banila pe Siret – Eylon visit 7/2013

In 7/2013 Baruch Eylon (formerly Alper) and his sons Gal and Ziv traveled to Romania and Ukraine to visit Banila – the village where Baruch parents lived prior to WW-II, and Mogilev Podollski, to where the family was deported in July 1941.

baruch eylon Baruch was born after the war (1949) in Transilvania – Satu Mare.
Gal and Ziv Eylon (Alper) were both born in Haifa, Israel.

Here are pictures from the July 2013 trip to Banila pe Siret –
Cemetery hidden in the woods.

Mogilev Podolsk – by Sylvie Gsell – France

Mrs. Sylvie Gsell is maintaining a website (in Facebook) in which she provides information about the Mogilev Podolsk concentration camp, to where Bukovina Jews were deported.

Mogilev_en – Sylvie Gsell

Ocna Pictures – 2006 – from Mr. Simon Kreindler

Pictures from Ocna – Mr. Simon Kreindler