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From: JewishGen's Communities Database:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~jgcd
Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities in Romania (Volume I)
Translation of Pinkas ha-kehilot.
Romanyah: entsiklopedyah shel ha-yishuvim ha-Yehudiyim
le-min hivasdam ve-'ad le-ahar Sho'at Milhemet ha-'olam ha-sheniyah.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/pinkas_romania1.html
Editors: Dr. Jean Ancel, Dr. Theodore Lavi, Aviva Broshi, Zvi Shal
Published by Yad Vashem
Volume I - Published in Jerusalem 5730/1969
Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities in Romania (Volume II)
Translation of Pinkas ha-kehilot.
Romanyah: entsiklopedyah shel ha-yishuvim ha-Yehudiyim
le-min hivasdam ve-'ad le-ahar Sho'at Milhemet ha-'olam ha-sheniyah.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/pinkas_romania2.html
Editors: Dr. Jean Ancel, Dr. Theodore Lavi
Published by Yad Vashem
Volume II - Published in Jerusalem 5740/1980
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Romania - Piatra Neamt from Cable Car - Travel Video HD
Piatra Neamt is a beautiful, large city in the Moldavian region of
Romania, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains and on the banks of the Bistri?a River.
Jewish settlement in Piatra Neam? dates back as far as the eighteenth century: a wooden synagogue was built in 1766; a burial society existed by 1771,
and the cemetery includes tombstones from that period as well.
In 1803, there were 120 Jews living in Piatra Neamt, working mainly in crafts and
trade. This increased to 8,489 in 1907 (approximately half the town’s population)
– Jewish merchants were active in industry, timber, cattle trading and also
banking. In 1941, there were 19 synagogues in Piatra Neamt, one of them a rather modern temple.
In 1947, approximately 8,000 Jews remained in Piatra Neamt, but their numbers decreased dramatically, due to virulent anti-Semitism.
Deportation during the Holocaust had not yet reached this city, but many people were deported to work camps.
"One destination for Jews leaving Romania was Israel (then Ottoman Palestine) where Romanians founded two of the oldest villages -
Rosh Pina and Zikhron Ya’akov. But between 1871 and the
outbreak of the First World War in 1914, almost 30 percent of Romanian Jews migrated
to Canada and the United States."
| Glimpses of a residential street in Piatra Neamt - then and now:
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Above: On a return visit in 1913 - my Nathanson (Natensohn) great-grandparents with some relatives
(left photo) and my grandfather (right photo) in front of 83 Strada Cuza Voda, the home
in Piatra Neamt where they lived until June, 1901 when they moved to Canada.
Below: Strada Cuza Voda, as it looked when I visited there in August, 2012. |
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