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BUCECEA : Botosani
Alternate name: Bucecea/Bucheche. Located at 47°46' 26°26' in Botosani County with no current Jewish population. The burials are not indexed. Older stones with Hebrew lettering only are well preserved. From an adjacent hill, one can look down into the cemetery site that is in a beautiful natural setting of rolling hills and a valley. The cemetery is easily accessed. The caretaker, Nicolai Amoraritsu, who lives in the village, has the key. The earliest Jewish community in the town possibly dates from 1825. Three rabbis are buried in a separate locked building inside the inactive cemetery. The Jewish community probably was Orthodox, Hassidic, and Sephardic. The isolated urban/suburban flat land in a lovely valley is separate with a sign in Romanian. Reached by turning directly off a public road, the cemetery is surrounded by a high continuous masonry wall and a gate with a lock. The current size is one to two acres. The cemetery is divided into older and newer areas with the separate building for the rabbis. About 100 gravestones are less than 25% toppled or broken with in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Romanian inscriptions.
Cemetery is located at the end of the eastern part of the town. It has a fence and an unloced gate. There is a caretaker, Ursu Vasile, hired by the Jewish community of Botosani. The cemetery is fairly clear of vegetation. There are about 664 tombstones, but about 355 are down. Bucecea is at the crossroads of 3 important towns--Suceava, Botosani, and Dorohoi
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