SIRET/SERET/ Szeretvásár , Sereth , | Romania | International Jewish Cemetery Project

Alternate names: Siret [Rom], Sereth [Ger], Seret [Yid סערעט, Pol, Ukr], Szeretvásár [Hun]. 47°57' N, 26°04' E, In NE Romania, 10 miles NE of Rădăuti, near the border with Ukraine..Jewish popuation: 3,014 (in 1890), 2,121 (in 1930). Jewish merchants from Galicia settled beginning in the 16th century. Jewish popuation was half Jewish. 1912- 1918 saw a Jewish mayor and several on the City Council. Many Jews fled during World War l as Russians occupied twice during 1914 and 1916. Before World War l 10 prayer houses in the community, a Mikvah, tahara, cattle slaughterhouse and slaughterhouse for chickens were in the city. The community "Talmud Torah" had four classes..1941 deportation to the labor camps in Trasnistria. An elaborate Aron ha Kodesh and a memorial to the Holocaust victims can be seen in the only standing synagogue, the Great Temple of Siret at Str. Teiului 4). Probably the last Jew living in Siret passed away in 2000.

Der Geshichte der Juden in der Bukowina, vol. II (Tel Aviv, 1962)
Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya:
Romania vol. 2(Jerusalem, 1980)
Die Sprechenden Steine von Siret.]Mar 2014]
- JewishGen Romania SIG
- Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 135: "Seret".
- Pinkas HaKehilot, Romania, Vol. 2 (1980), pp. 482-483: "Siret".
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 1186-87: "Siret".
- Jewish history. [Feb 2014]
- Jewish Bukovina [Fe 2014]
- CZERNOWITZ-EPHES [Mar 2014]

web site of the writer, Ruth Ellen Gruber. Jewish Cemeteries of the Bucovina by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. ISBN 978-973-1805-50-4. Romanian, Ukrainian, English, French, and German. This book may soon be available via commercial booksellers, but can also be obtained directly from the author <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>. Though very fews Jews remain in the Bucovina, the cemeteries represent the culture and prominence of the Jewish populations of pre-WWII Romania. This volume provides information on and pictures of the Jewish cemeteries of Campulung Moldovenesc, Vama, Gura Humorului, Solca, Arbore, Radauti, Moldovita, Siret, Mihaileni, Storozhynets, Vyzhnytsia, Banilov, Vashkivtsi, Novoselitsa, and Hertsa. [Mar 2014\

:abandoned sites Gruber, Ruth Ellen. Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to East-Central Europe New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992.

226-228; cemetery, tombstone; 226, 227

9 pictures in book. Saros Laszlo and Vali Dezso. Tanu ez a kohalom . (This Cairn is Witness Today) ISBN 963 7476 172. Source:

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a historical summary for Sereth (Siret). May [2001]

http://keplerweb.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at/~web99589/framesetengl.html

http://www.giotto.org/jesse/romania.html

Last Updated on Sunday, 25 January 2009

CEMETERIES:

"Middle" Jewish Cemetery: Central SireL Located across the main road. Video of women's gravestones video. 19th century. ornate,
Baroque-style gravestones. in a field like a plateau, above the "New Cemetery. photos that "overlaps with Ehpes". [February 2013]
Old Cemetery: 1700 to 1840. Central Siret. Some tombstones date from 1560. The Old Jewish Cemetery in Siret is one of the oldest in
Moldova. Riichly carved 18th century gravestones are visible. Photos-1. Photos-2. [Feb 2014]

New Cemetery: Central Siret. Located across the main road. Well kept. 20th centtury gravestones. photos. [February 2014]
Holocaust Memorial.

Photos courtesy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [2008]

[UPDATE] Photos by Charles Burns [April 2016]

[UPDATE] Photos and article on cemetery survey [April 2017]