Budinetz – Bukovina Jewish Heritage Sites

Budinetz Memorial – 12 July 2016 – by Baruch Eylon

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.

During this trip the team surveyed 12 heritage sites, met with local officials, filled the questionnaire (using a mobile application that allows capturing text and pictures, including GPS coordinates) and posted the information on the web, to make it available to all interested people around the world.

The team also prepared recommendations what to do in each site.
The filled survey about this site can be seen at

http://gazpacho.netalizer.co.il/gazpachoNG/#/public-report/5555182/17992/LVCP2Q8VN8?l=he-il

This post provides pictures taken by the team at the memorial for the Budinetz Jews that were murdered in WWII . The memorial is located along the road going from Budinetz to Chudey, approximately 1km after Budinetz.
The memorial was built by the authorities approximately in 2006.

Here are the pictures (with the team).

Budinetz Cemetery – provided by Chabad Rabbi of Chernivtsi Menachem Glisnshtain

Rabbi of Chernivtsi – Menachem Glisnshtain has provided the following photo of the Jewish cemetery in Budinetz.

Chudey Jewish Cemetery – 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 Budinetz-Chudey Jewish Cemetery. 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 Budinetz-Chudey are at:
http://1drv.ms/1JNt31W

Here are part of those pictures.

Budinetz Jewish Cemetery – by Edgar Hauster

Here are pictures of the Budinetz monument.

Budinetz Murder Site – by Avraham Iwanir

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