Jewish cemetery (Chernivtsi)

Chernivtsi Jewish Cemetery (2009)

Former morgue (2012)

Gravestones in the cemetery (2012)

The Jewish Cemetery Chernivtsi is the graveyard of the Jews in Czernowitz , the capital of Bukovina in today's Western Ukraine .

meaning

The cemetery established in 1866 on today's Zelenastraße (vul. Zelena) has a size of 14.2 hectares. There are around 55,000 graves on it, making it one of the largest surviving Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe.

The writers Elieser Steinbarg and the first Jewish mayor of Czernowitz, Eduard Reiss , found their final resting place here.

The cemetery contains graves of soldiers from the First and a memorial for the Czernowitz Jews murdered in Transnistria. The old ceremonial hall has fallen into disrepair; renovation has been planned since 2005. The protection against vegetation and weather influences is taken over by local authorities and individuals. In 2008, a workcamp organized by Service Civil International took place in which young volunteers cleared the cemetery of overgrown vegetation. There is also support from American survivors' associations, as well as partner cities such as Vienna or partner regions such as Carinthia. The cemetery is also a tourist destination for tours and study trips.

The gravestones bear German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian inscriptions and point to the incomparably rich history of the city in East Central Europe .

“But what can be read in a current travel guide about Silesia also applies to the Czernowitz cemetery:“ You can see that Wroclaw was a German city in the Jewish cemetery. ”Like German (-Austrian)“ Little Vienna ”on the Pruth was, can in any case be recognized where today the relics of a lost reality can be admired. "

- Steffen Höhne and Justus H. Ulbricht

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Gerlach: Ukraine - between the Carpathians and the Black Sea. Trescher Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89794-152-6
2. ↑ Where is Ukraine located? Determining the position of a European culture. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20347-4

See also

• History of the Jews in Chernivtsi
• List of Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine
• Museum of Jewish History and Culture of Bukovina (in Chernivtsi)
• Sadhora
• Bucovina

Web links

Commons : Chernivtsi Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Experiences in the city of five languages. Young volunteers are trying to save the Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi
• Map of the cemetery
• Photo series
• Jewish life in Sadhora
• Chernivtsi (International Jewish Cemetery Project)

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '39.2 "  N , 25 ° 57' 30.3"  E