Lipcani

Lipcani
Church in Lipcani
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	MD-4706
Area code	+ 373 247

Lipcani (Romanian pronunciation:

Overview

Lipcani is located on the banks of the

• June 17, 1429: The first historical mention of Lipcani.
• 1699: Some of the Kamieniec Lipka Tatars who remained loyal to the Ottoman Sultan after fighting for him were settled in a town in Bessarabia that became known as Lipcani.
• 1812: Lipcani and the rest of Bessarabia became a part of Russia.
• 1900: Population 4,410. Name: Lipkany, Khotin, Bessarabia, Russian Empire.
• 1904: By this year, there was already a railroad connecting Lipcani with Novoselitsy.
• 1905: Various parts of Bessarabia were subject to
  Anti-Jewish pogroms
  .
• August 1916:
  Romania entered WWI on the side of the Triple Entente against Austria-Hungary & Germany
  .
• March 2, 1918: The 2nd Cavalry Division of the
  Odessa
  .
• February 6 [
  Russian Revolution it declared itself an independent republic (Moldavian Democratic Republic). The regional National Council (Sfatul Țării) of the Moldavian Democratic Republic decided union with Romania on April 9 [O.S.
  March 27] 1918.

• August 11, 1918 The 187th
  Czernowitz, via Novoselytsia
  , to Lipcani, where they stayed until August 15.
• August 16, 1924: Along the forest of
  gendarmes who were taking two terrorists whom they had just arrested to Lipcani, were attacked by a Russian squad who killed one gendarme and went off with the terrorists.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• 1930: Name: Lipcani-Târg, Hotin, Basarabia, Romania.
• 1935: Lipcani Culture house built.
• 1937: Lipcani-Rădăuți Bridge opened.
• End of the 1930s: Lipcani was a small provincial town, populated mainly by
  Jews, who mostly lived in the central part of the town. There were about ten synagogues in Lipcani. There was a different synagogue for each guild
  : tailors, shoemakers, cabmen, etc. "Guild" synagogues were located in neighborhoods in the outskirts of town. Richer Jews had big synagogues in the center of town. There were 4,698 Jews on the eve of World War II.
• June–July 1940:
  cheders
  .
• August 2, 1940: The
  Moldavian SSR was formed, which included Bessarabia without its Southern part. Territories given to Ukraine initially included Edineț, Briceni, Lipcani and Ocnița
  . When the Soviets came, Lipcani was a town near the border. It belonged to the USSR and the area beyond the town was Romania.
• November 4, 1940: The borders were changed by the decree of the SS of USSR.
• 1940: 1,218 households and 5,726 people.
• June 22, 1941: The Germans invaded the Soviet Union and opened fire on Lipcani. There was a commandant office and a frontier regiment in Lipcani that set up a defensive position.
• July 1941: The Germans captured Bessarabia, and the 41,000 km² (16,000 sq mi) area of
  Einsatzgruppe D, Ukrainian police and Sonderkommando
  R.
• July 8, 1941: Jews from the towns of Lipcani and Sekiryany were sent to Briceni.
• July 11, 1941: In Lipcani-
  Hotin
  , the Military Police took 12 Jewish hostages and executed them.
• July 20, 1941: The
  concentration camps
  where they were never heard of again. The ones that could not make the trip on foot were shot on sight and during the trip.
• July 28, 1941: All Jews from Briceni were dispatched across the Dniester and several were shot en route. When they arrived in Mogilev, the Germans "selected" the old people and forced the younger ones to dig graves for them. From Mogilev the rest were turned back to Ataki and then on to Sekiryany. Hundreds died en route. For a month they stayed in the ghetto, only to be deported again to Transnistria. All the young Jews were murdered in the forest near Soroca.
• October 9 and 10 (1941): Jews from
  Mărculeşti
  .
• 1941–1944: Around 148,000
  Bessarabian Jews were killed in Rîbnița and other ghettos and concentration camps on the East bank of the Dniester during the Nazi
  occupation. During the war, the town, including almost all synagogues, was burnt down by the Germans.
• 1950: Name: Lipkany, Soviet Union.
• 1944:
  Republic of Moldova
  and has been so since the dissolution of the USSR).
• July 6–20, 1996: A water ecological expedition called "Prut 96", organized by the NGO called Association of Ecological Education and Information "Terra Nostra" was held down the Prut river from the village of Lipcani to the village of Sculeni in the Ungheni region. The goal of the expedition was to examine the Prut river with the participation of students and post-graduates in order to attract attention of the population and state services towards the ecological problems of the river and the whole region.
• April 7, 1999: The Lipcani soccer team Venita lost to the
  Moldovan Cup
  1998/1999.
• 2000: The Moldovan Section of the International Society for Human Rights and the NGO's Datino and Credo were working with the women's prison in Ruska and the colony for young men in Lipcani.
• March 17, 2004: According to Stela Melnic of the Ministry of Economy, the construction of a 1.5 km (0.93 mi) bypass road to the Lipcani-Rădăuți Bridge is going to start next autumn. Sponsored by
  customs checkpoint
  .
• June 17, 2007: the candidate of
  elected
  as mayor of Lipcani. Dumenco Evghenii (born 1958) is an auto mechanic and president of SA "CMD-8".
• February 15, 2010: Lipcani-Rădăuți Bridge reopened.

Nearby Jewish communities

• Rădăuți, Romania: 3.6 km
• Corjeuți, Moldova: 18.3 km
• Darabani, Romania: 18.7 km
• Bajura
  , Romania: 21.3 km
• Briceni, Moldova: 23.5 km
• Gîrbeni, Romania: 23.9 km
• Novoselytsia, Ukraine: 24.5 km
• Havîrna, Romania: 24.9 km
• Grimăncăuți, Moldova: 25.3 km
• Khotin
  , Ukraine: 33.1 km
• Dumeni, Romania: 34.2 km
• Săveni, Romania: 35.4 km
• Cristineşti
  , Romania: 36.2 km
• Edineț, Moldova: 38.7 km
• Zhvanets, Ukraine: 38.8 km
• Okopy, Ukraine: 42.2 km
• Kitay Gorod, Ukraine: 42.8 km
• Staraya Ushitsa, Ukraine: 43 km
• Gertsa, Ukraine: 43.1 km
• Klishkivtsi, Ukraine: 43.9 km

Current information

• Railroad lines in Moldova run north-south from Cahul and the southern border with Ukraine to Lipcani and the northern border with Ukraine. The main road routes run from Cahul to Chişinău via Comrat and from Chişinău to Lipcani via Bălți.
• Current Institutions in Lipcani: Lipcani Pedagogical College, Lipcani Reformatory for Boys.

Books

• Lipcan Fun Amol (Lipcan of Old) – Aaron Shuster,Yizkor book in Yiddish, 1957,218 Pages. Has B/W photos of the town.
• Kehilat Lipkany: Sefer Zikaron (Prayer for Lipkany): Book of Remembrance – Author/Editor: Zilberman-Slone, Tel Aviv 1963, 407 Pages, Languages: Hebrew & Yiddish, Published in Tel-Aviv.

Notable people

• Moyshe Altman (1890–1980) – Yiddish prose writer, revered for his intricate style.
• Shaike Dan (1909–1994) – one of the Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine
• Vasile Didic^[2] (b. 1949), painter with works in several Moldovan museums.
• Eliezer Greenberg (1896–1977), American Yiddish poet
• Yiddish theater
  .
• Moishe Oysher (1907–1958) – Yiddish singer and cantor.
• Eliezer Steinbarg (1880–1932) – Yiddish poet, educator, and well-known author of Yiddish fables.
• Hebrew
  writer.
• Yankev Shternberg
  (1890–1973) – Yiddish poet and theatrical director.
• Alexander Grobman Tversqui (born 1927) – agricultural scientist.

Locations of other towns called Lipcani (or similar)

• 89.0 km (55.3 mi) north of Chişinău, Moldova (This town is called Lipceni and is sometimes confused with Lipcani.)
• 304.2 km (189.0 mi) southwest of Kiev, Ukraine] This town is called Lypcany is also sometimes confused with Lipcani.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lipcani.

• Census records information for 1858–1859 and 1874
• Massacres, deportations & death marches from Bessarabia, from July 1941
• Pictures of Lipkany
• Survive & Tell by Shalom Eitan, 1998
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, "People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe
• International Jewish Cemetery Project