Botosani

Botosani Cities, Towns, Shtetls

Botosani and Dorohoi had the two largest Jewish communities in Botosani Judet. There were also significant Jewish communities in Bucecea, Darabani, Frumusica, Mihailena, Saveni, Stefanesti, and Sulita. Botosani had one of the earliest Jewish settlements with tombstones dating to 1540. Dorohoi has tombstones dating to 1656. Dorohoi was once the capital city of Dorohoi County but was merged into Botosani County when the Soviet Union took Northern Bucovina after WW2. The northern part of Dorohoi County including a former good sized Jewish community in Herta (Ghertsa) is now part of the Ukraine.

Jewish Population of Major Botosani Judet cities/towns

	Jud	1803	1820	1831	1838	1859	1899	1930-40
Botosani	B	1400	2444	1646	9880	13123	16660	11840 (1939)
Dorohoi	D	600	928	1133	2392	3031	6903	5788 (1939)
Darabani	D				600	838	2476	1917 (1930)
Mihailena	D		515	734	900	2472	2446	1483 (1930)
Stefanesti	B		280	239	628	1468	2392	2361 (1930)
Sulita	B		116	497	780	1630	1834	1096 (1940)
Saveni	D			71	216	532	1808	1764 (1930)
Bucecea	B			98	172	523	1281	758 (1941)
Frumusica	B			82	188	381	821	614 (1941)

Yiskor Book Project

A new project was started in May 2010 to translate: Dorot shel yahadut ve-tsiyonut Dorohoi, Saveni, Mihaileni, Darabani, Herta, Radauti-Prut Editor: Shlomo David, pub. in Kiryat Bialik 1992-2000: click below for latest updates:
Generations of Judaism and Zionism in Dorohoi, Saveni, Mihaileni, Darabani, Herta, Radauti-Prut

Cities, Town, Shtetl Links

Dorohoi - Victory Boulevard

Darabani Courthouse

Ştefăneşti - Leleasca River, wooden church. View from road. Wikimedia Commons. 2002 Alexandru Baboş

View of Bucecea from Road. Jewish cemetery on left in dense patch of trees surrounded by white fence. May 2008 photo by Robert Zavos

Saveni Synagogue

Saveni Cemetery

Click thumbnails for enlargement from ROM-SIG