The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of Wiznitz
octobre 1941·Wiznitz
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A Carpathian town in Bukovina, seat of one of the great hassidic courts of Eastern Europe, Wiznitz saw its Jewish population expelled in a few days and conveyed to the camps and ghettos on the left bank of the Dniestr.
Wiznitz, on the Tchérémoche, was the seat of one of the great Hasidic dynasties of Bukovina, and its name was intertwined with that of its court. In the summer, the community is stripped bare, some of its members killed in the town and along the roads, and the rest driven eastward in columns of deportees. The court, its schools, and its books vanish with it.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Roumanie
Encyclopaedia Judaica ; Matatias Carp, Cartea Neagră ; documentation de Yad Vashem.