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.
I used the visit of Banila to try and locate the house of my grandmother and my parents in the village. I used the instructions Mr. Dov Shai gave me (He was a neighbor that lived near them, and a relative of our family) to try and find the house. I was lucky enough and was able to find it as well as a gravestone of Ruchel Gertler – from my mother’s family.
3 years ago when I was there I didn’t know where to search and the cemetery was so overgrown that it was impossible to read inscriptions on the tombstones…
This post provides pictures taken by the team in the Banilov/Banila pe Siret village and the house of our family.
The pictures of the village and house, taken on 13 July 2016, are shown below.
