Name of synagogue SINAGOGA MARE (GREAT SYNAGOGUE)

Street address 149 ANA IPĂTESCU ST.; coordinates (longitude/latitude): 26.30623579/
47.45671074

City and postcode FĂLTICENI

Website of Jewish community or synagogue (if available) –N/A

Website of Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania: www.jewishfed.ro

Contacts

Contact at Jewish community (president) GOLD STRUL

Street address of Jewish community: 85 SUCEVEI ST.

Telephone number 0230.542.431 and email cevfalt@yahoo.com

Street address of Jewish cemetery:

(1) 106 Victoriei St. (new)

Condition of the cemetery? - Good

(2) 76 Brosteni St. (old)

Condition of the cemetery? - Bad

Synagogue facts—you will not find all the answers, but it’s important to ask

When was it built? 1795 (in wood).

Year(s) when it was remodeled or expanded? Reconstructed in 1834 - 1854.

Name of architect(s) – unknown to us

Other synagogues that this architect built – unknown to us

Is it known who designed the brass candelabras etc? – N/A

Is it known who was the artist who painted on the walls? – N/A

How would you describe the condition? - Good

Jewish statistics

How many Jews lived in this city before the Holocaust?  In 1930, there were 4,216 Jews out of a total population of 11,533.

What was its peak year of Jewish population? 19th century.

How many synagogues were in the city then? In the 19th century there were 13 synagogues in the city. In 1916, 34 synagogues and prayer houses.

How many now? 2.

Are the others used as synagogues? - No

If not, what are they used for? – unknown to us

If possible, give their addresses: Synagogue (1890), 35 Bobulescu St.

Holocaust related

What was the fate of the Jews of this city during the Holocaust?

On 1941, a concentration camp was established for all Jewish males in Fălticeni plus Lespezi and Liteni villages. About 5,000 Jews from the Fălticeni area were deported in Bessarabia and Transnistria , and only about 3,700 returned at the end of the war.

How many were murdered? (unknown at this point. Still researching).

How many emigrated? The vast majority.

How many live there today? 40, in 2007. Still fewer today (2016).

What are the social services for Jews in the city, if any? – N/A

Sources:

Congresul Mondial Evreesc. Secțiunea din România, Populația Evreească in cifre. Memento statistic (Bucharest, 1945): 46

FCER, Memoria cimitirelor evreiești (Bucharest, 2007): 42

Pinkas ha-kehilot. Romanyah, vol. 2  (Jerusalem, 1980): 188– 191

Milu Schwartz, “Sinagoga Mare din Fălticeni”, in Revista Cultului Mozaic, no. 229 (1 mai 1970): 6

Arh. Aristide Streja, Arh. Lucian Schwartz, Sinagogi din România (Bucharest, 1996): 96

http://lacasedecult.cimec.ro/RO/Documente/asp/detaliu.asp?k=32838-1

http://www.jewish-romania.ro/monumente.php

www.jewishfed.ro

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/rom1_00188.html

The Romanian Synagogue Documentation Project

Underwritten by the David Berg Foundation

Grant recipient: Centropa, Vienna, Edward Serotta, Director,

Organizing Partner: The Center for Hebrew Studies and the Goldstein Goren

Center for Israel Studies, University of Bucharest, Felicia Waldman, Coordinator

Researcher: Anca Tudorancea, Center for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews

Photography: Daniel Gruenfeld, Oliver Beck Assistant

Web coordinator: Dragos Parasca