Thanks to Luke Rothman for having the patience to photograph so many
gravestones.
They are indeed beautifully carved in traditional style and many date
from the second half of the 19th century.
As to the two Banila. Rus Banila is NW of Czernowitz, not far from Vaskautz
and close to the Cheremosh. Banila Mold. Is SW of Czernowitz, close to
Storojinetz. It is on one of the tributaries of the Siret called the little
Siret. In 2006 a small group of us visited this village. It has a small
Jewish cemetery.
What both Banila villages have in common is that in both villages, in 1941
there took place horrible massacres. In Banila Mold. 15 Jewish people were
murdered in the most cruel and gruesome manner.
In Rus. Banila the number of those murdered was 170 and they were murdered
in just this same beautiful and interesting cemetery.
Mimi
On 7/6/09 6:16 PM, "Bruce Reisch" <bir1_at_nysaes.cornell.edu> wrote:
> The information below comes from Luke Rothman, who visited northern
> Bukovina last month. Take a look at his amazing photos and
> documentation of the cemetery in Russ Banilla. The web site gives
> you the option to view very large, high quality versions of each
> photo. Luke has given me permission to share this photo site and
> information with you.
>
> Luke also writes ". . . the last photo is of an old woman who lives
> next to the cemetery. She didn't speak much Russian (which my friend
> is conversational in), so it was hard to communicate with her. But
> she was telling us about a friend of hers, Klara Dauber, and found a
> few pictures that looked like elementary school photos and pointed
> her out. Just thought I'd mention it, since there are a couple people
> with Dauber listed on the [Czernowitz] family finder."
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>
>> From: Luke Rothman <luke7_at_mac.com>
>> To: Bruce Reisch <bir1_at_nysaes.cornell.edu>
>> Subject: [Cz-L] Re: Schachter family
>> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:11:34 -0400
>>
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> I just got back last week from a trip to visit the various towns in
>> Ukraine that my great-grandparents came from, including Russ Banilla
>> (Banyliv).
>>
>> When I was there, I came across a cemetery that I hadn't found
>> online. After getting back from the trip, I looked into it some
>> more, and I think the info online may be incorrect. There are
>> references at:
>>
>> http://admin.lo-tishkach.org/Search/Search/ShowCemeterySimple.aspx?QryCemeter
>> ySimple=10602
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e%2Deurope/ukra-b.html
>>
>> but these seem to refer to Banilov, another town, even though the
>> description sounds like the cemetery I visited (and the coordinates
>> on the second link seem to be a mix-up between those of the two
>> towns). The JewishGen communities database seems to make the correct
>> differentiation.
>>
>> In any case, my timing was lucky as the hay had been cut so the
>> graves were fairly accessible and visible. I spent about an hour
>> photographing just about all of the legible tombstones with a 12 MP
>> camera, and according to my GPS logger the coordinates of the
>> cemetery are about 48.360616 N, 25.353145 E.
>>
>> I've uploaded the photos to my smugmug site, which has unlimited
>> bandwidth. I'm emailing you because I thought you might have some
>> suggestions on what to do with these photos - feel free to pass on
>> the link to anyone who might be interested. My data collection may
>> not be adequate to fit the guidelines of the JOWBR, but I think
>> these photos must still be useful to someone, somewhere. The photos
>> are at:
>>
>> http://luke7.smugmug.com/gallery/8770494_uUCGA
>>
>> Let me know what you think, and have a nice fourth of July!
>>
>> Luke
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