Categories:

  • Maps

  • Holocaust Victims

  • Genealogical Records

  • History

  • Pictures

  • Trip Reports

  • Memoirs

  • Bukowina Family Web Sites

  • Background

  • Searchable Databases

  • Bukowina HyperLinks

  • Radauti HyperLinks

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    • Maps

  • View RADAUTI via MapQuest (Lat 47° 51´, Long 25° 55´)

  • 1882 Map of Bukowina/Galicia  - See Radauti in lower right corner

  • Ethnic Map of Bukowina, 1910 - > 600K

  • Current Radauti city map

  • Bukowina map page - old maps of Czernowitz and Bukowina

  • Current Chernivtsi Street Map - (in Ukrainian), each section is clickable


  • Another Chernivtsi Street Map - (in Ukrainian), click on map on left, enlargement appears on right

  • German and Romanian Street Names in Chernivtsi

  • Additional maps of Czernowitz and Bukowina Click on Maps and Misc. Items link on the left side of the page.

    Holocaust Era Information

  • List of victims from Radauti - Gathered by the Organization of Former Radautz-Bukowina Residents in Israel.

  • Evidence for the annihilation of Romanian Jews in Transnistria - Jacob Drucker's List of Moghilev, Transnistria, burials at Yad Vashem Archives

  • Archival Holdings for Czernowitz at Yad Vashem - microfilm and print records, victims and survivors.

  • List of victims from Siret (Sereth) (near Radauti) - Gathered by Marc Goldberger and the Organization of Former Siret Residents in Israel.

    • Genealogical Records

  • Vital records related to Radauti and Bukowina - Courtesy of Merle Kastner. Send in your vital records for inclusion too.

  • Two records for the HALPERN family of Radauti - Courtesy of Rae Barent.

  • The BRUKER / BRUCKER Family - a compilation of research done in Romania.


  • The GROPPER family - a compilation of professional research.


  • The SCHACHTER / SCHECHTER family of Radauti - a compilation of professional research.

    • History

  • "Radauti" - English translation of the chapter on Radauti from the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Vol. II. Published by Yad Vashem.


  • "Radautz" - English translation of book chapter by Alter Wassermann (s.A), published in "The History of the Jews of the Bukowina"

  • Brief History of Radauti  - from the Beth Hatefutsoth database.

  • Ghetto Fighters Museum - View a collection of photographs online. Go to the Archive section of this web site. Click on "Search Archive" and search on open-text words Radauti, Cernauti, and Bukovina. Trouble with Hebrew fonts? Click on the American flag to switch to English. Photographs are clickable to enlarge.

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    Pictures

  • Photographs of Radauti - most from July, 1998, two from 1930-1940.

  • Photographs, Summer, 1999 - trip to Radauti by Markus Lecker.


  • Photographs, July, 2001 - trip to Radauti by Cipi and Yitzhak Gilat.

  • Photographs of Radauti - postcard views from the early 20th century.

  • Brucker Family Photos - a collection of older photographs.

  • Photographs, Summer 2001 - trip to Radauti, Siret and Bucarest by Marc Goldberger.


  • Schimel Family Photos - courtesy of Peter Linder


  • Photos from Sylvie Gsell - Please help identify people in these pictures


  • Rennert Family Photos - courtesy of Dr. Gad Rennert


  • Photographs, August 2007 - trip to Arbore, Vatra Dornei and other Bukovina locations, courtesy of Hannelore Condiescu

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    Trip Reports

  • Back to Bukovina - A Trip to My Roots in Radauti and Sadgura, 1998.

  • The Jews of Chernivtsi - by Sue Ann Harding. Story based on a visit in August 2000, originally published in the Jewish Quarterly (London) 

  • Searching for Pessie SCHIMMEL - a journey back to Radautz, March 2005, by Peter Linder

    • Memoirs

  • Two Tales of One City - The recollections of two former Jewish residents of Radauti.

  • My Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust, translated from Yiddish, by Mali Haimovitch.

  • Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors in Canada - Volume 3 by Nahum Meir Halpern and Volume 5 by Markus Lecker discuss experiences in Radauti and other locations in Bukowina.

  • Recollections of Fratautii - a "large town" to the north of Radauti

  • Alchemy of Survival - excerpts from a book by Rita Stenzler Rogers

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    Bukowina Family Web Sites

  • The Poras Family of Solka


  • The Brucker/Bruker Family of Radautz


  • The Rudich Family of Bukowina


  • The Reisch Family of Sadagora  - (includes Schachter, Brucker, and Halpern families from Radautz)


  • The Reicher Family of Radautz - (includes Stern and Korn families of Radautz)


  • The Radautz Blog of Edgar Hauster- in German


    • Background Information

  • The Radauti Jewish Cemetery, 2005 - project to document and preserve this historic site


  • Supplemental information for the cemetery web site above - including many tombstone photos


  • Background cemetery information- scroll down to Radauti


  • The Bukovina Jews World Union (Der Weltverband der Bukowiner Juden)


  • A Radauti Bibliography


  • Information on Landsmannschaften of Radauti


  • Reminiscences of Transnistria - written by Mendel Halpern, a survivor from Radauti.


  • Holocaust in Romania - by Matatias Carp (formerly known as the "Black Book", this is a "pdf" file)


  • After the Shoah: A fundraising appeal from the Bukowina lansdmannschaft of Montreal, Canada

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    Searchable Databases

  • Jewish Genealogy Family Finder (for RADAUTI)
    • - An important database.

  • Archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  • List of Radauti Landmanschaft Burials - Mt. Zion Cemetery, New York

  • Partial List of Holocaust Victims of Radauti - from monument erected at Holon Cemetery, Israel


  • Assorted Vital Records from Bukowina

  • List of Business Owners in the Bukowina, 1914-15 - including Radauti


  • Lists of Students in Czernowitz and Radauti Secondary Schools - for late 1800s


  • Jewish Farmers Tolerated in the Bukowina - in 1808


  • List of Graduates (1885-1896) from the Ober-Gymnasium of Radauti - and their location in 1897

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    Learn about Bukowina, and its capital, Czernowitz (Updated 7 October 2005)

  • New web site for the History and Genealogy of Jewish Czernowitz - by Jerome Schatten

  • Join the Czernowitz-L discussion group for Czernowitz and Sadagora History and Genealogy

  • Photographs of Czernowitz - a selection of images from July, 1998.

  • JewishGen Family Finder (for Czernowitz) - an important database for all.

  • ShtetLinks Site for Sadgura/Sadagora - Bukowina, Ukraine

  • ShtetLinks Site for Gura Humorului - Bukowina, Romania

  • ShtetLinks Site for Bukovina and Suceava County - a master list of links to genealogical and historical information

  • Romanian Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group, includes Bukowina

  • Bukovina Society of the Americas

  • The Yiddish Shtetl, Czernowitz

  • Southern Bukowina Genealogy

  • Northern Bukowina Genealogy

  • Dizzy Web, direct from Czernowitz

  • A personal web page on Czernowitz

  • Information on Bukovina (in German)

  • Jewish Foundation of the Ukraine - click on "Directory of Jewish Communities of the Ukraine", then click on "Chernivtsy".

  • City of Chernivtsi - The Unofficial Home Page.

  • Before Memories Fade - the memoirs of Pearl Fichman; life in Czernowitz before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  • Die Jüdische Kulturmetropole Czernowitz - from Berlin Radio web site (in German)

  • Bukowina history, picture postcards, etc. - click on the link to "Views" for an excellent online selection of old Bukowina postcards (in German). The "direct link" to Radautz, Sadagura and Sereth will take you to a special collection of picture postcards.

  • Historical Photographs of Czernowitz

  • Bukowina - 1919 handbook of the Historical Section, British Foreign Office, donated for public use to the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project.

  • History of the Jews in the Bukowina - by Hugo Gold. Several English translations are posted at this site; more are in the works.

  • Bukowina Landsmannschaften - Sources of information on the Landsmannschaften of Bukowina.

  • Jewries in Galicia and Bukowina, Lemberg and Czernowitz - A scholarly study of Jewish life in this region in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  • Chernovtsy Photo Gallery

  • City of Chernivtsi - The official web site.

  • Virtual Chernovtsy - for tourism information, images, etc.

  • The Jews of Chernivtsi - by Sue Ann Harding. Story based on a visit in August 2000, originally published in the Jewish Quarterly (London)


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    RADAUTI HyperLinks (Updated 22 March 2006)

  • The Radauti Jewish Cemetery - a project to document and preserve this historic site


  • Additional information on the Radauti Jewish Cemetery - including many tombstone photos


  • Information about Radauti and the surrounding region- from Radauti (in Romanian)

  • Click on the link to The Last Jews of Radauti, Laurence Salzmann - Award winning book and video.

  • Radauti and the Bukowina countryside - travel pictures

  • Bukowina history, picture postcards, etc. - (in German). The "direct link" to "Views from Radautz, Sadagura and Sereth" will take you to an excellent collection of picture postcards.

  • Radauti Town Hall web site

  • Suceava Judetel (County) Government web site

  • Tourist web site for Radauti - direct from Romania.


  • eRadauti.com - local phone numbers, pictures, business directory, etc. (in Romanian)

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    Contributors:

    Bruce I. Reisch
    Rae Barent
    Yitzhak and Cipi Gilat
    Markus Lecker
    Merle Kastner
    Bondy Stenzler
    Ignacio Sternberg
    Marc Goldberger
    Peter Linder
    Sylvie Gsell
    Hannelore Condiescu
    Gadi Rennert

    Page Created by Bruce Reisch
    Updated 26 May 2008 by BIR

    Copyright © 1998-2008 Bruce Reisch