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Lipcani is a small town in Moldova, located in the Bessarabia region close to where the borders of Ukraine, Moldova and Romania meet. Lipkany is located on the banks of the Prut river, which forms the border with Romania. The border with Ukraine is also only a few kilometers to the north. The closest large urban centres are Chernivtsi in Ukraine, Suceava in Romania, and Balti in Moldova. Lipkany is about 40 km from the city of Khotyn.

Lipkany (English) is also called Lipcani (Romanian) and Lipkon (Yiddish). Because of misspelling or translation difficulties, it is also called: Lipcan, Lipcany, Lipkan, Lipkani, Lipchen, Lipcheny, Lipcheni, Lipcani Targ, Lipceni, Lipchany, Lypchany, Lipchani, Lipkamya, Lepkan, Lepkany, Lepkani, Lepcan, Lepcany, Lepcani, Linkani, Liptchani, Lipkane, Lipkon and Lipcon.

table Some of the Kamieniec Lipka Tatars who remained loyal to the Turkish Sultan after fighting for him, were settled in a town in Bessarabia, which became known as Lipkany. The 2nd Cavalry Division of the Austro-Hungarian Army, who was originally subordinate to the Kosak Group and then to the 17th Army Corps and to the Ostarmee, took Lipkany and Larga. They later moved to Odessa. Bessarabia was still part of the Russian Empire, but after the Russian Revolution it declared itself an independent republic. The local National Council (Sfatul tarii) decided upon union with Romania on this date (old The 187th Brigade of the Austro-Hungarian Army moved from Czernowitz, via Nowosulice, to Lipkany, where they stayed until August 15. The union between Bessarabia and Romania was confirmed by Romania's Western allies in the Treaty of Paris, but was not recognized by the Soviet Union until 1936. Along the forest of Zelena (15mi from Hotin), a couple of Romanian gendarmes who were taking to Lipkany two terrorists that they just arrested, were attacked by a Russian squad who killed one gendarme and went off with the terrorists. Lipkany was a small provincial town, very cozy and picturesque. It was populated mainly by Jews, who mostly lived in the central part of the town. There were about ten synagogues in Lipkany; 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 at the eve of WWII. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav M. Molotov signed a Treaty of Non-Aggression: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. This treaty freed Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland. Secret protocols, made public years later, were added that assigned Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Bessarabia to be within the Soviet sphere of influence. The Moldavian SSR was formed, which included Bessarabia without its Southern part. Territories given to Ukraine initially included Edinet, Briceni, Lipkany and Ocnita. When the Russians came, Lipkany was a town near the border. It belonged to the USSR and the area beyond the town was Romania. The Red Army entered Lipkany declaring it part of the Soviet Union. Many Romanians escaped to Romania and left all their belongings behind. Following the slogan: i, the Soviet authorities arrested all rich people, executed some and sent the rest to Siberia. Those people in Lipkany that had made any efforts in their life (mostly poor) reported on their rich fellow citizens and received their belongings from the new authorities for their services. Since the Communist system promoted atheism, the authorities began to fight religion by closing synagogues, churches and cheders. The Romanian Royal Army, 7th Infantry Division, crossed the Prut river in pursuit of Soviet troops along the direction Noua Suli - Lipkany (South of Hotin). At that time, Bessarabia was occupied by USSR. The Germans arrived in the Romanian territory and opened fire on Lipkany. There was a commandant office and a frontier regiment in Lipkany that set up a defensive position. The Germans captured Bessarabia, and the 16,000 sq. mile area of Ukraine named Transnistria was granted by Hitler to the Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu for Romania’s participation in the war against the soviet Union. Jews from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Moldova were transferred to Transnistria and many thousands were murdered from 1941–1944 by the Romanian Gendarmeric, the Einsatzgruppe D, Ukrainian police and Sonderkommando R. The death march of 1,200 Jews from Lipkany began. The Germans took them to concentration camps where they were never heard of again. The ones that could not make the trip on foot were shot on site and during the trip. All Jews from Brichany 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 (Atachi) 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. Jews from Radautz were carried to their death in train wagons meant for transporting animals. These trains passed through Lipkany. There, the Germans sent one group to the Dniester through Ataki, and the other group to Markulesti. Around 148,000 Bessarabian Jews were killed in Rybnitsa 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. Bessarabia was "liberated" and since then it has been an integral part of the Moldavian Republic of the USSR (As of 2004, Bessarabia is part of the independent Republic Moldavia, after the dissolution of the USSR). Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989, General Population Survey, 10-digit Russian geographic code (adapted from the All-Union List of Place Names): The Lipcani soccer team Venita lost to the Balti Team Olimpia in the Quarterfinals for the Moldova cup 1998 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 Lipkany 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. 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 Lipkany. According to Stela Melnic of the MOE, the construction of a 1.5 km bypass road to the Radauti-Lipcani Bridge is going to start next autumn. Sponsored by TACIS and EU PHARE the project involves Moldova and Romania. The project will also include the modernization of the Lipcani customs checkpoint.Railroad lines in Moldova run north-south from Kagul and the southern border with Ukraine to Lipkany and the northern border with Ukraine. The main road routes run from Kagul to Chisinau via Komrat and from Chisinau to Lipkany via Beltsy.MapQuest's map of 4816 2648 Lipcani 128.8 miles NW of Chisinau, Moldova This is the location widely regarded as Lipkany.MapQuest's map of 4748 2853 Lipceni 55.3 miles N of Chisinau, Moldova This town is called Lipceni and is sometimes confused with Lipkany.MapQuest of 4832 2729 Lypcany 189.0 miles SW of Kiev, Ukraine This town is called Lypcany is also sometimes confused with Lipkany.YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, "People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe