Projects

Planned:

1. Obtain the following Secureni documents available at Chernivsti's State Archive:

   • File listing the shtetl's Shochatim (ritual slaughterers): Moshe Schechtman, Mendel, Yankel, and others

   • "Inspection records" about jews in the concentration camp in 1941

   • File about Secureni's Liceum (like a high school I believe)

   • Secureni population registration books

   • Secureni Synagogues and religious personnel

   • Secureni living in the war zone (?!) that obtained/tried to obtain certificates (of/for what?), in 1938/39

   • Secureni 1937 voter's list

   • Documents about the community (commercial?) cooperatives in Secureni

   • File about a judicial (?) case involving Tscharne Lerner, originally from Komarov, 1932

   • Birth, marriage and death records about the community

   • Files about judicial/law suits involving the police, some sort of agriculture organization (perhaps a Zionist movement? just like "Shochatim" in their description render something like "killers of birds") and the Communist party (can also be a Zionist movement, which were usually socialist or even communist)

   • List of Holocaust victims

   • Book of Secureni Residents with Romanian Citizenship, 1924; 1918-1940 à this one we have (acquired)

   • Individuals who drafted to military service in 1939, 1941

   • "Inspection records" about the mill and oil businesses in Secureni

   • File about carpenter Itzik Eisenberg (probably Aizenberg in the excel) – 1925-1926

   • File on Joseph Rosenzweig, 1933

   • Document about the transition of Jewish families from Romankovsty to Sokiryany

   • Investigation on communist activities; 1932, 1936-1937, on Delia Burdman, Mendel Glazer, Zalman Kupershmidt and Anton Milevich.

   • File about the "Defende Organisation" (perhaps also a Zionist movement, involved in resistance activities against the nazim?), 1941

   • Land properties from the community (Jewish community or Secureni only) in Lipkany, Romankovtsi, Ocnita – 1942, 1943

   • Law suites:

     • 1928 – Ruvin Gruzman;

     • 1928-1935 – Kamartya(?) Groisman, Yankel Kogan, Peisach Wilkenstein, Riva/Regina Leah Freygold, Itzik Feldman and Moshe Frosresger

     • 1929-1930 – Zeyma Ksepofont, Sheindel Katz, Gashol/Heshil Rosenberg, Chaim Koiflim/Koifman, Hersh Gandelman

     • 1930-1935: Elias Bronstein, Chaim Lerner, Idel Rachuch, Alter Lerner, Rabinovitch, Rachman, Spilberg, Shister/Schuster, Leizer/Leizor, Reisman and others.

Bogdan says his last visit to the archive was on Nov 2012, and that he found a large amount of data relating to Secureni – like files in written in Romanian, law/legal suits, vital records (birth, marriage, divorce and death/illness certificates) and documents about Secureni jews legal property.

He took a look at one of the files and found references to the following families:

Selingher (Zelinger?), Kleiman, Hersh, Tzechan, Lantzetti, Mitelman, Feldman, Fishman, Gruman, Kroubli (Krublit?), Geller, Pichelman, Roitman, Shor, Rabinovich, Rozenberg, Bergman, Kuperman, Vainstein, Krovbit (Krobit/Kravet(Kravetz?)), Volyfman (Wolfman?), Lecherman, Zisman, Zaltman (Zaltzman?), Sechtman (Schechtman?) among others.

2. Reprint Secureni's Yizkor Book with the following additions:

• • Discussion Group's family stories for families missing in first edition, or add information on families already mentioned

  • Include data from USC Shoah Institute video testimonials from Secureni survivors

  • Convert Yizkor Book scans into searchable text

  • Try to include as much data collected by the discussion group as possible