[Cz-L] More about Moldovitsa

Dear Cornel, and everybody else, who is interested,

To your question, if Rusmoldovitsa still exists - the answer is a big "YES"
. A branch of my family lived there, till deportation to Transnistria. Elan
(my husband) and mysef, + 15 members of our family, (all descendents of the
Rosner family), visited that village in 2000, while beeing on a family-roots
trip to Rumanian Bukovina.
Its location, as explained by Abraham Kogan so correctly, is east to
Suceava. You can locate it on every road-map.

It is situated high, in the mountains, and the view is breath-taking. I
mentioned it to an old woman, who lived in a miserable hutt at the edge of
the Jewish cemetery, and she answered, in German, with a toothless mouth,
that "Yes, it is beautiful, but one cannot eat the view"....
If you are interested in more details, you are invited to corresponde with
my relative, Jaques Rosner: yrosner_at_netvision.net.il . Jaques will be more
than hapyy to discuss the place of his youth with you.

My own great-grandfather, Mendel Rosner, lived in Kiselitze, which is today
in the Ukraine. He too, found his parnusseh in the timber business. My
relative Jaques, tells me, that as a young boy, he used to walk from
Moldovitsa to Kiselitze.

On that trip we hired a mountain-train, who, special for us, took us all the
way up, almost to the Ukranian border, where we saw the Rumanian and
Ukrainian workers felling the trees, etc. We passed on our way villages,
where you can see women washing their clothes in the river, and mother-hen
walking proudly along, with15 yellow chicks behind her.....It was a
wonderful trip!!!

I will quote for you from the second vol. of the English abridged version of
"THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWISH LIFE"", edited by Yad-Vashem, and published by
New-York University press in 2001:

"MOLDOVITA. Bukovina, Rumania. An independent community was founded in
1930 when 436 Jews lived there. In Nov. 1940, the J. pop. fled to
Gura-Humorului, and in fall 1941 was deported to Transnistria. About a third
returned after the war.

With hopes that I helped - Miriam Lava
Received on 2006-01-09 13:55:06