There is no Jewish cemetery in Vyzhnytsia

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Christian Herrmann under Jewish Cemeteries, Northern Bukovina

August 2012. I’ve been wanting for a long time to visit Vizhnitz – Vyzhnytsia in Ukrainian. Maybe because it was the equivalent of the middle-class and assimilated Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) Jewery once. Vizhnitz was a stronghold of Hasidism, of Jewish mysticism and Judaism for the poor. Can you still feel some of it today? Yes, if you manage to find the Jewish cemetery.

Vizhnitz Jewish cemetery

Vizhnitz former synagogue, now a music hall

Vizhnitz Jewish cemetery

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When history comes close

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Christian Herrmann under Jewish Cemeteries, Northern Bukovina

Chernivtsi, former Czernowitz, in western Ukraine in August 2012. For the last five years, volunteer organizations have been engaged in the maintenance of the Jewish cemetery. Young people from the whole world remove vines and undergrowth in an attempt to make the cemetery accessible each summer. It is hard physical work but it is possible to learn and experience much.