About Storojinet

Storojinet today is a little village located in south Ukraine, about 20 km south west to the central city Chernivtci (A.K.A Chernovitz), north to the border with Romania. The town is location at 25.43 longitude and 48.10 latitude. For technical details about a travel to that area, please visit my page on virtual-tourist.

Here you can view a map of the area:

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The area where Storojinet is located in is called Bucovina. This place has gone many kinds occupation: Austrian, Romanian, Natzi , Russian and Ukrainian.

During the beginning of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the village was mostly settled by Jews.

Most of the Jews who didn't make it to Israel before WW-2 began, had to suffer the horrors of the holocaust. You can download this unique document written by Matatias Carp and edited by Andrew L. Simon . This is an amazing document that was originally written during the WW-2 by Romanian person, documenting dates, places, names and much more in Romania . From the preface of this document by the author:

"... I wrote this book of blood and tears with blood and tears to help my brethren find new incentives and objectives in life by remembering the pains experienced, and blows received, in the hope that they will discover means of self-defense in the future, and so that the anger and disgust created by the events presented here with should make others acknowledge that they committed a great number of crimes against the members of our community. They must provide comfort for the pain and go along way towards easing their conscience by accepting responsibility in the eyes of history."

I have checked some information in this book with an eye witness, and found it to be perfectly correct. You can download the pdf version of the book, by courtesy of the publisher Mr. Andrew L. Simon of Simon Publications.

If you are searching for Storojinet on the web, please notice the various ways of writing this name:

Storozynetz,
Stordjinet (Yiddish),
Storojinet (German),
Storojineti (Hungarian),
Storozynetz (Slov),
Strizinitz (Polish),
Storozynetz (English) and
Storojinet (Ukraine).
Storozhinets

More detailed information about Storojinet history can be found here, in the Yizkor project of JewishGen.