Banila Czernowitz Ropcha and Storozhinetz [Eng] – 9/2017 – by Naftali Zloczower

Roots trip to Bukovina

My name is Naftali Zloczower, and both my parents, Dvora (Dora) Schneider Zloczower and Menachem (Maniu) Zloczower, were born, raised, and lived in Storojinets (Storozhynets), Bukovina (today in Ukraine), until the second world war, as did many members of my family and relatives.

In September of this year, 2017, my wife, Nava and I took a roots trip to Bukovina, visiting Czernowits (Chernivtsi), Storojinets, Banila (Banyliv-Pidhirni) and Rupcze (Ropche). We visited Lvov (Lviv) and Zloczow (Zolochiv – probably the source of my family name), but they are in Galicia, and not in Bukovina.

In Chernivtsi, we visited the archive and were presented with 3 files of Romanian records listing Jews who lived in the Storojinets Ghetto in August 1941, before they were herded away to the Transnistria camps. When time ran out, just before closing time, a file with records from Banila was brought to us, but, even though we were allowed to stay after the normal closing time, we did not have enough time to go over the Banila file. In the Storojinets files we found listings of all the members of my mother’s family, including my mother, her sisters and brother, and her parents, as well as listings of many other family members, relatives, and acquaintances. I photographed pages that included names of relatives and familiar last names.

In Storojinets, we found the house of my mother’s family and, we are pretty sure, the house of my father’s family. We also found and photographed the Great Temple on what was Temple Gasse, and the school were my mother and aunts learned.

We visited the Jewish cemeteries in Stotojinets and in Banila, In Banila, we found my great-grandfather, Yossel Zloczower’s grave and the grave of his brother (most probably), Peretz Zloczower, whom I did not know before. In the Storojinets Cemetery we found graves of my maternal great-grandparents, Abraham and Scheindel Schneider, and graves of quite a few family members and relatives. I photographed tombstones with familiar last names.

I wrote a report of our roots trip in Hebrew, and I will write one in English, as well.

See below the link to the trip report.

Roots – 9-2017 

See below pictures from Banila Cemetery:
The house nearby and the trail to the cemetery.

The tombstones peeping from the bushes

Tombstones and Zloczower family members tombstones


Pictures from Storozhynetz Cemetery

Pictures from Banila

Pictures from Storozhynets

The old synagogue… serves now as a gym… better than previously being a gypsy market…

Banila Czernowitz Ropcha and Storozhinetz [Heb] – 9/2017 – by Naftali Zloczower

שמי נפתלי זלוצ’ובר ושני הוריי, מנחם זלוצ’ובר ודבורה (דורה) שניידר זלוצ’ובר נולדו וגדלו בסטרוז’ינץ עד מלחמת העולם השנייה. משפחת סבי, אביו של אבי מבנילה ומשפחת סבתי, אם אמי, רוזה הולינגר מרופצ’ה. כך שכל משפחתי, בדורות האחרונים, ממחוז סטרוז’ינץ בבוקובינה.

בספטמבר האחרון (2017) אשתי, נאוה, ואני ערכנו טיול שורשים בצ’רנוביץ, בסטרוז’ינץ, בבנילה וברופצ’ה. בארכיון בצ’רנוביץ גילינו שנמצאים שם תיקים בהם רשימות של יהודי בוקובינה, כל ישוב בנפרד, אשר הוכנו על ידי הרומנים הפשיסטים אחרי כיבוש מחדש של בוקובינה מהרוסים, אחרי הקמת הגטאות, ולקראת הובלת יהודי בוקובינה למחנות טרנסניסטריה. בשלושה תיקים של רשימות יהודי סטרוז’ינץ מצאנו רשומים של אמי ומשפחתה ורבים מבני משפחתי וקרובי משפחה שנלקחו לטרנסניסטריה. צילמתי את הדפים בתיקים שהכילו שמות של בני משפחה ומכרים וגם כאלו של בעלי שמות משפחה זהים לשמות בני משפחתנו הרחבה ומכרים.

ביקרנו גם בבתי העלמין היהודים בבנילה ובסטרוז’ינץ. בבנילה מצאנו את קברו של סבא-רבא שלי יוסף זלוצ’ובר ושל אחיו, שלא ידעתי על קיומו, פרץ זלוצ’ובר.

בבית העלמין בסטרוז’ינץ מצאתי את קבריהם של סבא –רבא וסבתא-רבתא שלי, אברהם שניידר ורוזה שניידר לבית הולינגר, כמו גם קברים של בני משפחה אחרים ומכרים.

הכנתי את הדו”ח המצורף ושלחתי אותו לבני משפחתי ומכרים שנמצאים בארץ, כולל דודתי, אחות אמי, ציפורה שניידר שטרן, ובן דודה של אמי, ישראל דורון שניידר, אשר שמותיהם מופיעים בתיקי ארכיון צ’רנוביץ והם עדיין נמצאים אתנו ופעילים.

 יש לי צילומים רבים של דפי רשימות היהודים מארכיון צ’רנוביץ, תמונות מבתי הקברות, כולל תמונות של מצבות שניתן לקרוא את החרוט עליהן, ותמונות כלליות מצ’רנוביץ, סטרוז’ינץ, בנילה ורופצ’ה.

הקישור שלהלן מכיל את סיכום הביקור ותמונות.

Roots – 9-2017

תמונות מבית העלמין בבנילה

הבית והשביל המוליך לבית העלמין

מצבות מציצות מבין השיחים

מצבות של בני משפחת זלוצ’ובר

בית העלמין בסטורוזינץ

תמונות מבנילה

תמונות מסטרוז’נץ

בית הכנסת הישן. כעת אולם ספורט, טוב יותר משוק צועני שהיה קודם

Storozhynetz Jewish Cemetery – 11 July 2016 – by Baruch Eylon

In 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/5572214/17992/3W1VDSO8TO?l=he-il

This post provides pictures taken by the team in the Storozhynetz Jewish Cemetery. The entrance to the cemetery is located near 113 Czernowitskaya street (the road coming from Czernowitz to the center of Storozhynetz).
The right side of the cemetery looks well taken care of whereas the buildings at the entrance and the tombs on the left side are overgrown and needs to be taken care of.

The pictures of the houses are where the entrance is.
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Storozhynetz Jewish Cemetery – by Ptachia & Bruria Menkin

Mr. Ptachia Menkin and Mrs. Bruria Menkin took part in the July 2015 journey, on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death, that was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews. The  Menkins also visited this area previously in 2013, 2011 and 2005.

One of the places they visited in 2015 was the Jewish Cemetery in Storozhynetz, now Ukraine. “In this cemetery are buried family members of our relative – Reuven Shechter”.
See below pictures from 2015 from the Cemetery.
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Storozhynetz Synagogue – by Ptachia & Bruria Menkin

Mr. Ptachia Menkin and Mrs. Bruria Menkin took part in the July 2015 journey, on the path of the Holocaust of Romanian Jews, in Bukovina and Transnistria valley of death, that was organized by the World Organization of Bukovina Jews. The  Menkins also visited this area previously in 2013, 2011 and 2005.

One of the places they visited in 2015 was the Synagogue in Storozhynetz, now Ukraine.
See below pictures from 2015 from the Synagogue.

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Storozhynetz Jewish Cemetery – by Isaac Herzig

On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a 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 and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.

One of the places the group and Mr. Herzig visited was Storozhynetz in Bukovina (Ukraine). There the group visited the Jewish cemetery.
See pictures from the cemetery.
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Storozhynetz Synagogue – by Isaac Herzig

On 7-15 July 2015 a group of almost 90 people from Israel went on a 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 and led by Mr. Yochanan Ron Singer and Mr. Dan Marian.

One of the places Mr. Herzig visited was Storozhynetz in Bukovina (Ukraine). There he visited the Jewish synagogue (which is no longer a synagogue but rather a Gypsy’s market).
See pictures from the synagogue.
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IN STOROZHYNETS WAY AWAY FROM ISRAEL – provided by Dan Marian

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]

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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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