Burial Records

An index of 11,287 burials in the Jewish cemetery of Radautz, compiled by Yossi Yagur from photographs of the headstones, the cemetery maps, the community’s burial index and the town’s Jewish death and birth registers (1857–1929).

Browse the records by lot or by the first letter of the surname below. On any page, use your browser’s find function (Ctrl+F) to look for a name.

Before you search: names appear in several spellings (for example ADELSTEIN / EDELSTEIN / EIDELSTEIN). Read Reading the Cemetery Index for the symbols and columns used, and The Radautz Jewish Cemetery Documentation.

Photographs of many headstones exist. To request a picture, use the “Request the photo” link under “More” in the record, or write to Yossi Yagur with the records you are interested in. Pictures are mailed free of charge.

Images of the death and birth register entries can be requested from Edgar Hauster and Bruce Reisch at bukovina.records@gmail.com, or with the “Request the register image” link under “More” in the record.

Found a mistake in a transcription? Please send corrections to Yossi Yagur.

Search JOWBR as well

JewishGen’s Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) holds the up-to-date index of the Radautz cemetery, kept by Yossi Yagur, with headstone photographs where available. The form below searches it for burials in Radautz, Bukovina, including surnames that sound alike.

Browse by lot

Lots follow the general plan of the cemetery. Within each lot, records are listed row by row in the order of the plots. Neighbouring records in a row are neighbouring graves, though empty plots between them are not shown, and rows are not aligned with each other. Each lot also has a map that draws its graves in place – open it from the lot page, or with “Show on map” in a record. Records known only from the registers, whose grave has not been located, are listed on the surname pages.

Browse by surname

About the data

Death and birth register data photographed by Edgar Hauster and transcribed by Martina Hauster, used with permission.