Sereth (Siret), city in Bukovina, country in the easternmost part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, south-east of Galicia, east of the Kingdom of Hungary, with a large Jewish settlement, now part of Rumania. In World War I, most able-bodied Jewish men were drafted into military service, and the advancing Russian army destroyed much of the city in the first week of September 1914. They returned there after 1918. Schenker's sister Schifre, now Sophie Guttmann, with her husband and three children, lived there until their house was destroyed in early September 1914, when they fled first to Vienna. See Sophie Guttmann. |
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