Re: [Cz-L] Bila 400 memorial.

Mimi et al.

On Ehpes, in the Database section, there is a table of 1941 mass burial
sites that Natasha Pechenkina sent me some years ago. Maybe this will be
of help to you:

http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz2/mempages/natasha/memory.html

Best,
jerome

On 13-05-12 12:31 PM, Miriam Taylor wrote:
> 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:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>> ...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...
> -----------------------------------------------
> 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
>

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