This is a descriptive annual report for Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) covering the calendar year 2025, representing our ninth consecutive year of operation as a volunteer-led non-profit NGO in Ukraine. As in past years, this report summarizes our project progress and events together with an outline of our NGO finances. Ця стаття також доступна українською. This was the first year…
Last week, Marla and I heard through our colleague Vasyl Yuzyshyn that the two men who manage the clearing and maintenance for us at the Jewish burial sites in Rohatyn have finished their work for 2025. It is much cooler in Rohatyn and the region now, and sunlight hours are diminishing fast, so vegetation growth has significantly slowed as it…
For the first time since the Covid 19 pandemic, Jay and I could not be in Rohatyn to mark the anniversary of the wartime killings at the “vodokanal” north mass grave. Ця сторінка також доступна українською. In our place and on behalf of Rohatyn Jewish Heritage and Rohatyn Jewish descendants worldwide, Lviv friends Wito Nadaszkiewicz, Sasha Nazar, and Denis “Benya”…
On March 20, 1942, more than 3000 Jewish Rohatyners were murdered and buried at the mass grave south of Rohatyn’s city center. Ця стаття також доступна українською. Marking this sad anniversary in our absence and on behalf of all Jewish Rohatyn descendants was one of our dearest Ukrainian friends: Iryna Nebesna, a journalist from Ternopil whom Jay and I have…
This is a descriptive annual report for Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) covering the calendar year 2024, representing our eighth consecutive year of operation as a volunteer-led non-profit NGO in Ukraine. As in past years, this report summarizes our project progress and events together with an outline of our NGO finances. This year our organization struggled even more in an irregular…
With the cooler temperatures and fewer hours of sunshine in western Ukraine now, the seasonal clearing of wild vegetation at the four Jewish burial sites in Rohatyn has now come to an end. When Marla, Wito, and I visited the city to review the Jewish sites during the first week of this month, already the grasses which grow so swiftly…
Last Thursday, Marla and I made another trip to Rohatyn to check the status of the Jewish burial sites, both cemeteries and both mass graves. We are pleased with how all of the sites look now; all are being cared for very well this year, with cutting and maintenance when the grass becomes tall. We are grateful to our workers…
After more than five months of development, with the important contributions of more than twenty friends and colleagues, and despite the practical difficulties created by Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, Marla and I are pleased to report that new information signs have been installed at both of Rohatyn’s Jewish mass grave memorial sites. As for the signs at the two…
Marking 81 years since the liquidation of the wartime Jewish ghetto in Rohatyn, today Jay and I stood with friends before the memorial monument at the north mass grave site – the final resting place of more than 3000 Jewish victims from Rohatyn and the surrounding region, including Burshtyn, Khodoriv, and Bukachivtsi – to recite the prayer El Malei Rachamim…
As we try to do every year on March 20th, Jay and I traveled today to Rohatyn to honor the memory of the more than 3000 Jewish victims murdered and buried at the mass grave south of Rohatyn’s city center. This year marks 82 years since that tragic event. Ця стаття також доступна українською. Joining us was our dear friend…