Re: [Cz-L] Stanesti de Jos

Hello Irv and anyone else interested in Ştăneştii de Jos

I visited Stanestii de Jos (Stanivtsy Dolishnye in Russian and
Ukrainian)
in April 2009 and can say the following about this village.
It seems an ordinary village like many others in the region.
The current inhabitants, numbering about 3000, speak Ukrainian,
but on a website I found when I googled "Stanestii de Jos", it is
claimed
that the current inhabitants are Romanians, members
of the Pentecostal church.
During our visit to the village we spoke to a number of locals and
made it clear that we were Jewish and that some of our ancestors
had been residents of the village before WW2.
This evoked no particular response, either negative or positive.

There are no reminders in the village of the Jewish community,
which existed there once. The Jewish cemetery, outside the village
is no longer in use, but in acceptable condition.

The massacre of Jews on July 5, 1941 in this village can be
reconstructed with unusual precision due to the abundance
of original sources.

Among the accessible sources:
USHMM Archives, RG-31.018M, reel 21;
USHMM Archives, RG-22.002M, reel 14

Radu Ioanid in his book "The Holocaust in Romania" writes:
"A group of Ukrainians, Ruthenians and Romanians
(civilians and soldiers)shot or bear to death between eighty and
eight Jews in the village of Stanestii de Jos.
Then they started gathering Jews from Babesti".....

 From the article by Vladimir Solonari
"THE TREATMENT OF THE JEWS OF BUKOVINA By THE
SOVIET AND ROMANIAN ADMINISTRATIONS IN 1940–1944"
I learned:

"The arrival of Romanian troops commenced a full-scale pogrom.
Killings continued until the arrival of the Romanian gendarmes under
Major
Berzescu, who immediately ordered the killings to be stopped.
Between 80 and 130 local Jews were killed, most from Stăneştii de
Jos
and the remainder from nearby villages.
Some of the killings were perpetrated with exceptional cruelty."

This article can be accessed at:
http://archive.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/Soc_Gum/Gis/2010_2/SolEng.pdf

Today, July 4th is American independence day, but it is also
the anniversary of the occupation of Storojinet by Romanian troops
in 1941 and the massacre of about 200 Jewish people by these troops.

Mimi

On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Irv Osterer wrote:

> I am new to the Czernowitz list and was wondering if someone could
> point me in the right direction. Has anyone posted anything about
> Stanesti de jos? It was my grandfather's birthplace. I have yet to
> find anyone who has visited there.
>
> Irv Osterer
> Ottawa, Canada
>

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