featured in the current Yad Vashem newsletter
Torah scroll and a depiction of the Ten Commandments
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o Plundered Torah Finials Restored
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o Stained Glass Synagogue Window
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o Torah Ark Curtain
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o Torah Arks
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o Torah scroll and a depiction of the Ten Commandments
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A small Torah scroll and mantle, Czernowitz, Romania. Jews deported to
Transnistria returned with it to Czernowitz
A metal sheet painted with a depiction of The Ten Commandments that was
returned to Czernowitz with the Jews who had been deported to Transnistria
The Torah scroll being presented to Haviva Peled-Carmeli, Director of
the Artifacts Department, Czernowitz, 1999
A small Torah scroll and mantle, Czernowitz, Romania. Jews deported to
Transnistria returned with it to Czernowitz
Displayed in the Yad Vashem Synagogue is a metal sheet inscribed with
the Ten Commandments and a small Torah scroll, two artifacts that the
Jews deported to the area of Transnistria took with them. While there,
the deportees fashioned a simple Torah mantle and crude wooden staves
for the Torah scroll. When these Jews returned to Czernowitz, they
brought the artifacts back with them.
Transnistria, today part of western Ukraine, is a region between the Bug
river in the east and the Dniester river in the west. Hitler gave the
area its name after it was captured from the Soviet Union by Germany in
the summer of 1941. The region was given to Romania as a reward for
Romania’s participation in the war against the Soviet Union and as
compensation for the transfer of most of the area of Transylvania to
Hungarian rule in 1940.
Before the war approximately three hundred thousand Jews lived in the
area of Transnistria. Ten thousand were murdered by the
Nazi/Einsatzgruppe D/and by other German and Romanian troops. In 1941,
when the Romanian government expelled the Jews of Bessarabia, Bukovina
and northern Moldavia from their homes across the Dniester river, the
area became notorious. Most of the deportees were closed in ghettos and
camps in Transnistria where the Romanian authorities washed their hands
of them, failing to take responsibility for minimum living conditions:
housing, food or basic medical care, resulting in the deaths of tens of
thousands from hunger, cold and disease.
Only in 1942 did the Romanian government change its policy and stop
collaborating with the Nazi’s plans to deport all the Jews of Romania to
the Belzec death camp. When news of the terrible conditions in
Transnistria reached Jewish communities inside Romania, various
organizations organized relief for the deportees. It was only at the end
of 1943, with the advance of the Red Army that the efforts of the
Romanian Jewish community finally bore fruit, and the Romanian
government finally began allowing the return of the deportees. Out of
one hundred and fifty thousand deportees, approximately ninety thousand
perished.
/Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection,
Gift of Noah Kempinski, Secretary - Czernowitz Jewish community, Romania/
https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/synagogue/chernivtsi-synagogue.html?utm_source=newsletter
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