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The trusteeship (administration) of the Israeli Hospital, founded in 1827, bought from the headman Mihalache Cantacuzino, in 1841, an abandoned inn on the White street, the current Elena Doamna Street.
The building authorisation was given on the condition of erecting a beautiful building, that would resist to fires. The building was made of stone, in a quarter area dominates by short wooden and adobe houses.
The hospital, initially called hekdes, became throughout time, through donations and management, one of the most powerful in the city, serving both Jews, as well as non-Jews. In 1930s it was treating almost 2000 ill people and there were made over 650 surgeries per year.
The Israeli Maternity also functioned here, founded in 1878, sponsored by the first Israeli women’s society in Iași. Its financing was made through donations, and the functioning was based on the voluntary work of dedicated medical staff, who were attending annually over 400 women.
Apparently, the Israeli hospital had a legal personality different from the one of the Jewish Community, and, this thing was an advantage when the country laws became restrictive for Jews. When the community had difficulties in buying the land of the Păcurari Cemetery, because it was on the territory of a rural setting where Jews weren’t allowed to own land, the cemetery’s perimeter was bought on the name of the Israeli Hospital.
After 1948, the hospital’s building and annexes were nationalised. Until 1974 it functioned as a children’s hospital, and then it became the “Elena Doamna” Obstetrics-Gynaecology Clinic Hospital of Iași, as it is known even today, taking the name of the First Lady of Romania, Elena Doamna.
The Neoclassical building has pillars and framings of the windows. The entrance, situated in a second plane, presents a triangular gable with an atypical semicircular base. An obelisk situated in front of the hospital reminds us of the past of this former Jewish institution.
The objective cannot be visited.
Jewish cemeteries in Iași
The Old Cemetery in Ciurchi, also called “At the Wall”, was the first Jewish cemetery in Romania. It was founded in the 15th century (one of the inscriptions dates since 1467) and closed in 1880 due to the lack of places. In the beginning, the cemetery had five hectares, surrounded by a three metres high thick wall. Here there were thousands of tomb stones with ancient Hebrew writings, specific to Oriental art and Honour chambers for the Rabbis. In 1943, at the orders of the marshal Ion Antonescu, 21.900 centennial graves were ruined, for the reason of the necessity of constructing some blocs of flats for the victims of disasters. Young Jews were forced to destroy their ancestors’ resting places. The wall was demolished, the wall’s stone and some tomb stones being used for consolidating slopes or paving some streets. After the war, the community members have given the land to the City Hall, in order to arrange the Ciurchi Park, which reminds us of the old cemetery through a memorial plaque.
The “new” Cemetery in Păcurari, opened in 1881 and enlarged in 1936, reached 26 hectares, and over 150.000 graves. Towards Păcurari road there still are the monumental entrance and a portico since 1881. The cemetery includes the lot of the Jewish heroes of the First World War, the monument of the 311 Jews killed at Sculeni in 1941, the tomb of the 36 Jews massacred in the Vulturi forest in 1941, a part of the bones brought in 1943 from the old cemetery in Ciurchi and the common graves during the Iași Pogrom (June 1941) with the monument shaped as waggons suggesting the “death trains”.
11. Ancienne Synagogue des Bottiers et l’Hôpital Dr. Leon Ghelerter