22.6.2017 – מפגש מחזור ג’ (1966) דנציגר

,שלום לכולם

  ב-22.6.2017 נפגשנו בעין כרם, יצאנו לסיור מעניין, מהנה ומעשיר בהדרכתה של שרה תאארי (שפורן) בהר הצופים, הר הזיתים, מצפה גנדי, הדרך מהמצפה לכנסית גת שמנים ומשם נסענו לעין כרם לארוחת צהריים       בפונדק עין כרם ולמפגש זכרונות וטעימות בחצר של משפחת לוין – גוני וגרשון

  .(לפי התגובות בקבוצת הוואטסאפ אני בטוח שכל המשתתפים נהנו (וכל אלו שלא יכלו להשתתף – הפסידו!!

  .תודה לכל מי שטרח להכין את האירוע ובמיוחד לשרה על ההדרכה וגוני על האירוח בבית.
בהמשך פוסט זה צירפתי סרטונים באדיבותם של מזל ויצחק גביאן, תמונות שצילמה זמירה (כרגיל – מצלמת ולכן
.נעדרת מהתמונות) וגם ישראל מרום ותמונה נהדרת שצילם דוד חזן – מדריכנו מהגדנע.

תודה לכולם, בוצ’ו

תוכנית המפגש ותמונות שישראל צילם בסיור המקדים ב30.4.2017

  לאחר  הלחיצה יש לשמור את הקובץ במחשב ואז לפתוח אותו     22.6- מפגש מחזור ג

תמונת מחזור” – משתתפי המפגש”

 

 

 

 

סרטון בדרך להר הצופים – שרה מסבירה 

בהר הזיתים

גביאן מקריא את חיבורו

אצל גוני בחצר

תמונות מהמפגש באדיבותה של זמירה

https://goo.gl/photos/YW14kN9kmKfinwE67

תמונות מהמפגש באדיבותו של ישראל

Washkoutz/Vashkivtsi Cemetery – by Mark Wiznitzer – May 2017 – NEW

VASHKIVTSI III:  Wiznitzer Family Cemetery Project Report – May 2017

The cemetery entrance is located about 3000 feet west of the town center, on the road to Banyliv and Vyzhnytsya (Wiznitz), at Google maps coordinates
48.390653. 25.506047, on the right (north) side of the road.  It is surrounded by a grey wooden fence.  There is no street sign or gate.  The cemetery can be accessed from an unfenced opening off a dirt road on the east side of the cemetery.  See the last paragraph of this report regarding a mass grave at a separate location.  The present population of Vashkivtsi is 5,430, and there are no known Jewish residents.

Officials/Persons Associated with the Jewish Cemetery:

Mayor of Vashkivtsi: Mykola Perch (050) 560 2513, municipal office in town.

Jewish Representative, Vyzhnytsya Raion: Alexandr Tauscher (097) 729 1119, Wiznitz.

Caretaker: Ivan Kniazkiy (097) 704 5492, lives in house adjacent to cemetery.

Wiznitzer Family Project Coordinator: Mark Wiznitzer 1-571-277-7248 (lives in USA)

Local Rabbi: Menachem Mendel Glitzenstein, Chabad Jewish Community of Chernovtsi, (037) 585 192.

The descendants and family members of four Wiznitzer brothers born in Vashkivtsi (formerly called Waschkoutz am Cheremosh) travelled to Ukraine in October 2010 to clear the Jewish cemetery where their grandmother was buried in 1914.  With the encouragement of then-mayor Mikhailo Sidor and help of local laborers recruited by Alexander Tauscher, the Wiznitzer family cleared the Jewish cemetery of decades of dense vegetation that had made access to most graves inaccessible, and left some trees to convey a park-like setting.  The team photographed and catalogued the graves uncovered, ordered the repair of the perimeter fence, installed a commemorative plaque in English and Ukranian on a boulder provided by the town.  The family also made arrangements for and finances the ongoing semi-annual clearing of vegetation.  The current mayor, Mykola Perch, has been supportive of the project’s continued care for the property.

The Jewish cemetery of Vashkivtsi contains over 845 stones in varying condition, with considerable erosion due to the soft stone, weather and growth of moss.  Many stones are totally or largely illegible.  Most markers have traditional inscriptions and Hebrew names, although many stones include German, Romanian and more recently Cyrillic names and text.  There is widespread use in the older sections of traditional Jewish symbols.  Several stones identify the deceased from other nearby towns.  A couple of stones from the late 20th Century included a crucifix, but at least one of these has been replaced since 2010.  While there may have been some vandalism in the past, most of fallen or tilting stones appear to have been the victim of soft soil conditions and/or tree roots.

The project created a catalogue of graves using alphabetized rows from west to east, and numbered graves from north to south.  The clearing operation uncovered a path in the older section on the Western side, now cut off by the fence and trees, that entered from the main road and originally separated males from females. Since its clearing, the cemetery has been included in at least one organized Jewish heritage tour.  Most visitors are tourists from Israel and other countries. During the clearing operation, a Christian woman from a nearby town came to the cemetery.  She did not know anyone buried there, but regularly visited because the souls there did not have relatives locally to come and pray for them; she considered the cemetery project an answer to her prayers. We also learned that some local townspeople have come to the cemetery over the years to find solace in difficult times.

Visitors are encouraged to come to the cemetery in the early morning, when the lighting and shadows highlight the serene beauty of the place.  The Wiznitzers found the grave of their grandmother Rachel Wiznitzer on the second day of the project’s clearing operation, coinciding with the birthday of their matriarch’s youngest granddaughter.

Vashkivtsi Mass Grave:  A mass grave for some two dozen Jews murdered in 1941 is located to the eastern outskirts of Vashkivtsi, in a dense grove of trees at the intersection of the road leading to the Carpathian foothills and in sight of the Holy Anino Monastery.  There is a stone marker with Hebrew inscription, but the route to the site is unmarked and difficult to find. It is not maintained and surrounded by trash.

The information about the Vashkivtsi Cemetery was submitted to JOWBR. The 2 files in the links below have the information.

Vashkivtsi jowbrsubmission
UKR-07484

Pictures of the headstones (847 pictures) were taken and are provided hereafter. The pictures are numbered (starting from 847 all the way to 1) and correspond to the headstone numbers in the above jowbrsubmission XLS file.

Note: People interested in documentation, the only known record of births and deaths for Vashkivtsi covers 1918-1928 and is located in the federal archives in Chernivtsi.
847   846 

845  844 

843  842 

841  840 

8   7   6  

 4 

3    2 

Murafa Ghetto – by Sara Rosen, Phd. – April 2017

Mrs. Sara Rosen has researched processes in Ghettos in Transnistria.
Her articles provided hereafter (One in English and one in Hebrew) deal with the Murafa Ghetto and are provided here with her permission. Sara, thank you!

SURVIVING IN MURAFA GHETTO: A CASE STUDY OF LIFE IN THE GHETTOS IN TRANSNISTRIA

The  paper presents the life of Jewish families in the ghetto of Murafa in northern Transnistria. The main research question is: How can one evaluate the importance of the interrelationship between the communal organization and the family unit to the efforts of Jews to endure ghetto life? The hypothesis of the paper is that the family unit was central to the ability to survive and that the transformations undergone by families were a reflection of both difficulties and opportunities of the family unit under extreme conditions. Various factors impacting on the family unit will be examined, including communal organization, the position of the family in the social system of the ghetto, the economic situation of the family, the level of mutual support among family members, role change in the family, and different patterns of interaction between family members.

This is the first study dedicated to this particular ghetto in Transnistira, with its population of 4,500. The research is based on primary sources from the ghetto, including formal archival materials of the authorities, personal letters, journals and memoirs, and oral histories. The analysis will draw on the theories of sociology as they relate to the structure and conduct of families in everyday life as well as life under extreme pressure. The study findings will provide new insights to understanding life in this ghetto and may offer a comparative approach to everyday life in East European ghettos under German occupation.

SURVIVING IN MURAFA GHETTO: A CASE STUDY OF ONE GHETTO IN TRANSNISTRIA     Murafa Ghetto 14.7

The Hebrew document: יחיד, משפחה וקהילה: חקר מקרה להישרדות בגטו מורפה בטרנסניסטריה
גטו מורפה

Shargorod Ghetto – by Sara Rosen, Phd. – April 2017

Mrs. Sara Rosen has researched processes in Ghettos in Transnistria.
Her Thesis for her Masters degree deals with the Shargorod Ghetto and is provided here with her permission.

The study deals with “The contribution of the public and family organization
to the survival of the Jews deported from Bukovina and Bessarabia to the Shargorod ghetto in the years 1941-1944“.

The study in the link below is in Hebrew.

Thank you Mrs. Rosen.

גטו שארגורוד וחיי המשפחה   גטו שארגורוד וחייהמשפחה27.4.2017

Djurin Ghetto – by Sara Rosen, Phd. – April 2017

Mrs. Sara Rosen has researched processes in Ghettos in Transnistria.
Her paper provided hereafter deal with the Djurin Ghetto and is provided here with her permission. Sara, thank you!

Ghetto Djurin in Transnistria through the lenses of Kunstadt Diary

Djurin is located about 45 kilometers northeast of the city of Mogilev, about 25 km south of Shargorod. Before the outbreak of the second WW, the local Jewish community numbered some 2,000 people. The Jews lived in very great poverty. Notably Rabbi Herschel Karalnik was the respected leader of Jews in the town.

At the outbreak of the war all men were drafted into the Red Army including the Jews. In town remained only the elderly, the sick, women and children, about 1,000 people. Date of occupation by the German and Romanian armies: July 22nd , 1941.  From the fall of 1941, the Romanians ruled Djurin.

The first deportees arrived in Djurin in September 1941 from Bessarabia. They arrived after a long weeks of wondering from camp to camp. Those deported Jews were housed in the synagogue and most of them died shortly after arrival. From the end of October of that year to January 1942 hundreds of deportees, arrived in Djurin ghetto. Most of them were brought from Bucovina, and others north of Moldova (Dorohoi) .

Inspired by Rabi Karalnik, local Jews welcomed the deportees with open arms although the locals themselves were very poor. 8- 10 persons crowded in one room. The homes of local Jews were able to receive more than two-thirds of them and gave those blankets and household items. About 1,000 people did not have a place; they were housed in barns and warehouses.

This paper is focusing on the reality of the new life in which the Jews deported to Djurin ghetto found themselves, as Kunstadt wrote in his Diary. The paper describes the local Jews and the relationship between them and the deportees, as well as the non-Jewish environment outside the ghetto and the relationships forged with those outsiders. All of this as it emerges from this diary.

See in the link:  Kunstadt – Sarah Rosen

The Synagogue of the Sadagora Rebbe – November 2016 – Collected by Baruch Eylon

 

In early November 2016 it was announced that the restoration work on the Sadagora synagogue of the Ruzhiner Rebbe has been completed and the building was re-dedicated.

I thought it will be good to collect pictures and various articles from different times and sources, showing the synagogue status and look, into one document and make it available to all. This was done in this document.

November 2016: Photos and news stories by Mr. Leonid Milman (found on Facebook), and Mr. Marc Goldberger (You can translate from Ukrainian to English using the Chrome browser):

http://zik.ua/news/2016/11/04/u_chernivtsyah_vidkryly_vidrestavrovanu_synagogu_hasydiv_985725   or  http://tinyurl.com/jqmnl75

http://molbuk.ua/chernovtsy_news/117828-u-chernivcyakh-vidkryly-vidnovlenu-synagogu-sadgirskykh-khasydiv.html  or  http://tinyurl.com/zdek3rs

http://bukovina.biz.ua/news/41714/

November 2016: Additional pictures from the re-dedication ceremony:

http://cja.huji.ac.il/wpc/browser.php?mode=set&id=10438

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1579066205444204&set=pcb.1579068682110623&type=3&theater

July 2016: Pictures taken during the Pilot Project by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews:   http://www.eylonconsulting.com/bukovina/blog/?p=1453

April 2016: Ukraine: Sadagora synagogue restoration nearing completion

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2016/04/08/ukraine-sadagora-synagogue-restoration-nears-completion/

July 2015: A post by Mr. Isaac Herzig after visiting the site as part of the 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.

http://www.eylonconsulting.com/bukovina/blog/?p=575

July 2015 – A post in Hebrew by Mr. Moshe Ben Deror, after the above journey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3DhsxRmoP8&feature=youtu.be

2004 – by Iosif Vaisman: few pictures of the synagogue interiors in 2004, with the remnants of beautiful murals seen through the peeling plaster –
http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/1845900.html

1998: Here is what this building looked like

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/sadg04.jpg

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/sadg03.jpg

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/sadg02.jpg

And in 1993:

http://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/reesphotos.html

75 Years Commemoration – Vatra Dornei 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 9th 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.
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75 Years Commemoration – Suceava 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 9th 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.
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75 Years Commemoration – Radautz 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 9th 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.
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75 Years Commemoration – Gura Humora 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 9th 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.
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