Re: [Cz-L] Bila 400 memorial.

For years, I did not know about the massacres which took place
in Czernowitz and the villages of the district during the summer of 1941.
At the time these occurred, I was only four years old and my parents
must have been careful not to speak about them in my presence.

I still have many questions about the events of July 1941 in Czernowitz.
I also sent these questions to the Cz.-List some time ago, but received no
definite answers.
1. Did local residents participate in these massacres?
2. Were they committed by Romanian Soldiers, or by German soldiers,
    or by both?
3. Where are all the graves of the victims located?

 Radu Ioanid, in "The Holocaust in Romania" writes, page 101:

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> ...One of the largest slaughters took place that day (July 5-6) in Cernauti
> the capital of Bukovina, where two thousand Jews were killed
> by Romanian soldiers working in league with local residents, gendarmes
> and German soldiers.
> Two mass graves at the Jewish cemetery received 250 corpses each,
> a third somewhat fewer.
>
> German troops executed another 400 Jews on July 9, setting fire
> to the main synagogue with incendiary grenades.
> Further mass killings took place in between July 9 and 12
> in Cernauti, Hotin...
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Radu Ioanid bases the number of victims on the "Carta Neagra" by M. Carp.
I do not know what his source of knowledge for the burial locations is.
To the best of my knowledge there is only one mass grave at the Jewish
cemetery for the victims of the July 5 - 6th massacre.
In this mass-grave there are supposed to be interred 900 of the victims.
400 victims are supposedly interred in the mass-grave at Bila.
There must be either additional graves of the victims, or there were only
1300 victims and not 2400.

If any of you have accurate information on where and when additional
massacres took place and where the victims were interred, please let me
know.

Mimi

On 5/12/13 8:39 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/alexgrein/52619125/36294/36294_900.jpg
>
> Memorial for the 400 shot at the Bila street shooting range
> on 6-8th 0f July 1941.
> Hardy
>

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