Father Shneor Zusa Riegler

Killed by the Nazis during (or after) the long walking to Transnistria on November 28th 1941.

• Yad Vashem Testimony page filled by his daughter - Hilda
• Yad Vashem Testimony page filled by his son - Marcus
  
• Yad Vashem Testimony page filled by his daughter - Tsila
  

Mother Dvora (Dora) Riegler

Killed by the Nazis during (or after) the long walking to Transnistria on December 7th 1941.

• Yad Vashem Testimony page filled by her son - Marcus
  

Sister Sara (Sidi) Riegler

Killed by the Nazis during (or after) the long walking to Transnistria on September 22nd 1941.

• Yad Vashem Testimony page filled by her sister - Tsila
• Yad Vashem Testimony page filled by her brother - Marcus
  

Sister Tsila (Tsily) Riegler (Hallstooch)

Tsila left the house in Storojinet with her parents, sister Sidi, her husband and her 2 small children. (At this time she was married with 2 children) . Tsila was witnessing her parents, her sister, her husband and her 2 children getting killed. Tsila survived the horrors and came to Israel after the war. She got maried again with Max Aizert (From Storojinet) but had no children. She died on 1996.

Brother Shamay Riegler

Shamay was recruited by the Red Army with other young men from Storojinet. His fate is unkown, but assumed dead, since most of those soldiers were killed in a battles against the Nazis.

• Yad Vashem Testimony page filled by his brother - Marcus
  

Sister Hilda Riegler (Blavatnik)

This is my grandmother. Immigrated to Israel on 1935. Got married and have one daughter. Died on 1992 in the age of 85.

Sister Lena Riegler (Fridenrich)

Immigrated to Israel on about 1930. Got married and have son and daughter. Died on 1998.

Brother Marcus Riegler

Immigrated to Israel on about 1933 to join Kibutz. Got married and have son and daughter. Today Marcus is 90 years old, working and living in Kibutz Sarid in Israel.

Out side the house

Right to left : Hilda, Tsila, Sara and their mother Dvora Riegler.

Out side the house

Hilda.

Out side the house

Hilda and Sara (taller)

Out side the house

Hilda

Out side the house

Hilda

Out side the house

The Rieglers

Sitting: Father Shneor Zusa and mother Dvora.

Standing (right to left) : Sara, Hilda and Lena.

(~1930)

Shneor Zusa Riegler

Wearing the Austrian army uniform.

(~1910 ?)

The Rieglers

Sitting: Father Shneor Zusa, mother Dvora.

Standing (right to left): Hilda, Sara, Shamay and Tsila.

(~1930)

Picture back

Note the name of the photographer. If you have any old pictures from Storojinet, you can validate this by (but not only) this name.

Youth group

In this pictures you can see a kind of youth group, with Shamay, Tsila and Hilda Riegler as guides.

(~1920 - 25)

Young Vito group in Chernovitz

(~1930)

Hilda Riegler 10 years old

In this pictures (1920) you can see my gradnmother (the girl standing most left). this picture was taken during WW-1 - you can see a young man standing there with the uniform of the Austrian army. (Bukovina was then part of the Austro-Hungary empire)

Wedding invitations

These are two wedding invitations from 1938 and 1939.

One of the brother Shamay, and the other of the sister Sara (sidi)

Shamay and his wife - Jenny Auslander

Sidi and her husband - Leon Mihlstein

Tsila and her husband - Mendel Halstuch

Child of Tsila

This is Kalman, one of the childs of Tsila who was killed during the walk (or after) to Transnistria.

Tsila and her child Kalman

The last postcard

Shneor Zusa Riegler and his wife Dvora sent letters and postcards to their children in Israel from the time the children left house (about 1933), until July 1941. This is the last postcard sent by the parents from Storojinet, right after the Romanian army with the Natzis invaded Bukovina and killed (with the help of some local non jewish people) 250 jews from Storojinet. The Rieglers survived this attack. The postcard is written in German.

Translation of the last postcard, By courtesy of Dr. Francisco Welter-Schultes, Zoologisches Institut, Göttingen, Germany.

This is a translation of the last postcard, that was done by my friend Francisco from Germany. By the time my grand grand father wrote this postcard the brutality of the Nazis was well known, so there is no chance he was happy that the Red army have left. I think, that those lines were written to prevent problems in the censor office. Francisco have suggested, that my grand grand father have wrote this postcard, knowing that maybe it is the only way, and the last chance to send something out. He also suggested, that he have wrote this to inform his children in Israel that the Nazis have invaded to Bukowina.