Campulung – Bukovina Jewish Heritage Sites

75 Years Commemoration – Campulung Moldovenesc Synagogue – 10/2016 – by Adina Babeş

In the fall of 1941, following the order of Ion Antonescu govenrment, 91,845 of Jews from Bukovina were deported. From 9^th until the 15 of October 1941, from the train stations of Suceava, Gura Humorului, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Vatra Dornei and Rădăuți, men, women, children were sent to Transnistria. Most of them died there, executed, or from epidemics, cold and starvation.

This year, we commemorate 75 years since this dark chapter of Romanian history. To honor the memory of the victims, commemorative plaques were placed on the facades of the train station from where the trains left to Transnistria.

This is a project of Federation of Communities of Romanian Jews and Elie Wiesel National institute for the study of Holocaust in Romania.

Campulung (Kimpolung) Jewish Cemetery – by Mr. Joseph Klein (Iulku)

Mr. Joseph Klein is from Campulung and after a Root’s Journey to his home-town (in the early 2000’s), he (the Chair), Eng. E. Spetter and the Board of Directors of the Jewish community in Campolung and surroundings have decided to document the Jewish cemetery there.

They hired a local person who prepared a diagram of the cemetery (3 pages, holding 976 graves), gave numbers to each grave and then prepared a table listing the grave number, the name of the person buried and the year of death. The list has 6 pages.

If you are looking for a specific person’s grave, find his/her name in the table, get the grave number and with that number, find it in the cemetery map.

Both diagrams and lists are sorted by grave number.

Unfortunately the documents – diagrams and lists – are not the originals thus their quality is not very high, but it’s good enough to help people locate their loved ones.

The diagrams and lists can be found in the link below.

Campolung Cemetery

People that read Hebrew and have interest in this area may want to look at the excerpts of the book about this community. See 3 parts of it in the links below.

Kimpolung P.001_012 Kimpolung P.071_098 Kimpolung P.500_504

Campulung-Moldovenesc Synagogue – 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 of Campulung-Moldovenesc Synagogue, provided by Christian – who visited the place in June 2015.

Campulung-Moldovenesc Cemetery – by Christian Herrmann

This work is published under a Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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 of Campulung Jewish Cemetery, provided by Christian – who visited the place in June 2015.