[Cz-L] Visit to Bukovina - searching for the roots

Hi everybody

I came back last week from an amazing visit to Bukovina.
Our family, 19 people in total, ages 2 months to 80 years (four generations)
visited for the first time Suceava, Radautz, family villages of southern
Bukovina (Illisesti, Balceana, Brasca, Brodina, Putna), Chernowitz and
Mogilev Podolski (Transnistria).
The trip could not have more successful, exciting, emotional than it did. We
visited cemeteries, synagogues, cities and were amazed to find family homes,
tombstones and many landmarks which we sought. My aunt at 80 got to her
grandparents graves for the first time. Nothing was more touching than
seeing my sister's granddaughter (22 months old) brush the grave in
Transnistria of her great-great grand father (my grandfather) non of us has
ever met.
I am sure I can guarantee that non of us who participated, at least in the
two relevant generations, will ever forget the experience, the stories, the
sights and the excitement of going back to where the family originated and
lived almost 200 years ago.
Many pictures will follow (mailed to Jerome to be put on Ephes site) and
possibly some more stories.
One dark angle of the trip was seeing the Siret synagogue, all newly painted
from outside but deserted, broken and dusty from the inside.
And we are all looking forward already to getting back to the area.

Gadi

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