Chernivtsi

Before the Second World War, Chernivtsi had a large number of Jews among its inhabitants, of which the poet Paul Celan is probably one of the best known. In October 1941, the old Jewish quarter became a ghetto for 50,000 Jews, more than half of whom were deported to ghettos and concentration camps in northern Transnistria (the area between the Dniester and Bug rivers), even though the Romanian mayor of the city ​​managed to save 20,000 Jews from deportation.^[1]

On 1 April 1945, Otto Frank left Katowice for Chernivtsi. He stayed there until 22 April, when he travelled on to Odessa.