Fw: [Cz-L] Dniester river.

As usual, Hardy's photo of the Dniester river is very interesting, but his
prose needs some clarification.
The town shown is Zaleszczyki, about 250 Km (~150miles) upstream from
Atachi/Moghilev-Podolsk where most of the Jewish deportees from the Bucovina
were driven across the Dniester. Zaleszczyki is where my wife was born and
we visited that place in 1997. About 20 miles upstream from there is
Siemakowce where 2500 Jews from Horodenka, including members of my wife's
family, were massacred and were buried in a mass grave. The Soviets erected
a memorial with the Russian inscription " To the Victims of Fascism", no
mention of Jews. After the collapse of the USSR, survivors from Israel
attached a plaque with the following inscription in English, Hebrew,
Ukrainian, and Yiddish:
"Mass grave of 2500 Jews-adults and children-from Horodenka and the vicinity
who were murdered here by Nazis on Dec. 4, 1941. May the memory of the
Holocaust victims be blessed forever".

Regarding the name of the river:
German and English - Dniester
Romanian - Nistru
Ukrainian - Dnister
The territory between the Dniester and Bug rivers, placed under Romanian
administration 1941-44, was named by the Romanians Transnistria, conforming
with their name of the Nistru. Interestingly, the Transnistria name has been
preserved to this day by the secessionist territory East of the Dniester
that calls itself the Moldavian Republic of Transnistria.

Fred Schneider

----- Original Message -----
From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 3:57 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Dniester river.

> http://s52.radikal.ru/i138/1006/d8/76a465424502.jpg
>
> One of the Dniester river bends.
> Cornell corrected my Niester to read Dniester.
> He is right .
> It should therefore be Transdniester and not Transniester as we called
> it.
> Lovely sight ,people spend a lot to come and enjoy .
> In 1941 we would pay a lot n o t to see it.
>
> Hardy
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