In October 1941, the Romanian fascists deported the three members of the Hilsenrath family to the Cernauti ghetto, now Czernowitz. Edgar survived, and when the ghetto was liberated by the Red Army in ...

Compilation of namelists of Romanian Jews from the town of Czernowitz (Romanian: Cernauti, Ukrainian: Chernivtsi) in Bucovina deported to labor camps: excerpted from the records of the Prefectura ...

Letter addressed to the Governor of Bukovina asking him to investigate how Mr. Ignatz Schöchter, doctor in Cernauti, conducted his affairs before and after the Soviet occupation. Digital Image Numbers ...

Polish planes, nearly 200 of them, piled into the little Rumanian airport at Cernauti, one landing on three others, wrecking all four. The battlefront disappeared, and with it the illusion that ...

A census of all the 13,000 Jews in Cernauti, capital of Bukovina, was taken yesterday by the Rumanian authorities at the same time that they proclaimed new anti-Jewish restrictions.

A doctor from the Romanian community in Chernivtsi (Cernauti) has transformed a bus into a mobile dental clinic, which he uses to travel the front lines giving free medical assistance to soldiers ...

Today she is active in helping Holocaust survivors. Ben-Zion Raisch. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem) Ben-Zion Raisch, born in 1932 in Cernauti, Romania, now Chernivtsi, Ukraine, will light the second torch.

Dr. Traian Popovici was the mayor of Cernăuţi , a town that was under Romanian control during WWII. Nowadays the city is part of Ukraine and known as Chernivtsi. From his post, he was ...

As major parties in Romania slugged it out over who will lead the next government, a thuggish-sounding new party barnstormed its way into parliament with its "anti-system" message.

Greta Beer, whose struggles to recover her family’s savings led to a lawsuit against Swiss banks, dramatic testimony before a congressional committee and a settlement of more than $1 billion for ...

Greta Beer, a Romanian Jew whose decades-long search for her father’s Swiss bank account helped force banks in Switzerland to pay more than $1 billion in compensation to Holocaust victims and ...