Dan Marian – Bukovina Jewish Heritage Sites

A group of people that were born in Bukovina and Bessarabia went in May 2006 to Ukraine, on a trip after the past – to visit places in Transnistria, to where the Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia were deported by the Romanians and Germans during WW2. Transnistria is located between the rivers Dniester and Bug. Jews who survived the Holocaust and arrived in Israel are looking for a way “to close the loop” and therefore come back to those places.
Dan Marian, Avraham Iwanier, Ben Artzi and Mrs. Sara Hemel took part in this journey, that was lead by Prof. Wolf Moskowitz and Mr. Eliezer Lesoboy. An article (in Hebrew) by Mrs. Sara Hemel was published on 06/06/2006 and can be found at:
http://www.tapuz.co.il/forums2008/articles/article.aspx?forumid=325&aId=72670

There is much talk about the death camp Pechera (Ukrainian), Peciora (Romanian) פצ’יורה (Hebrew), but there are very few visitors, and not many pictures. During WW2 it was a work-death camp, managed by the Germans (unlike other places in Transnistria that were managed by the Romanians).
The Jews in the camp died of hunger, thirst (although the Bug river is close, Jews were not allowed to drink its water), cold and diseases.
Before and after WW2, when the Soviets ruled the place, it was a hospital for tuberculosis patients.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — A fountain into which the bodies were thrown into

Summary of the trip (in Hebrew) can be found at: 2006 Journey to Ukraine

On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 100 people from Israel went on a journey on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death. This journey was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.
Mr. Dan Marian provided the following article and pictures, published in the Storozhynetz local press.

IN STOROZHYNETS WAY AWAY FROM ISRAEL | 11 July 2015 | [From http://storozhynets.info/archives/4396]

Today, 11 July 2015, 10 Israeli Jews visited Storozhynets in the framework of the Day of Honouring the Memory of Bukovina Jews. They were born in Storozhynets or are persons whose relatives left the town some time ago, or at the start of World War 2.Within this framework 88, persons came to Chernivtsi.

In Storozhynets the guests visited the building of the former synagogue and the
Yu Fedkovych park, where the memorial of the fallen in World War II is situated. They also visited the way to the train station.

One of the guests, Dan Marian, spoke about the Jewish ghetto in the street I. Vilde.
Then the guests went to the Storozhynets school number 1, where a gymnasium was in the 1940s. The head of the received from the school, as a present, books on the town history and the school history. The head of the group, Marian Dan said that five days ago was his birthday and it’s probably his best present in the last 60 years.

The Jews visited also the Jewish cemetery, stopping before at the house on the Chernivtsi street, where Dan Marian was born. While at the cemetery, they spoke with the people who take care of it and thanked them. In general, the guests had a very positive impression of our town. In the evening they returned to Chernivtsi for a rest.

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