This is a descriptive annual report for Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) covering the calendar year 2023, our seventh 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 continued the irregular operating mode of our organization caused…
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Burial Sites Clearing Season Ends for 2023
Today Marla and I traveled to Rohatyn again to visit the four Jewish burial sites and to review the vegetation clearing and maintenance work which was done for us again this year on behalf of Jewish descendants. This was the second year during which the work was completely managed and documented for us by two men who live and work…
Holocaust Film “Wordless” at the Rohatyn Public Library
This week Jay and I had the pleasure of joining friends and colleagues at an event hosted by the Rohatyn Central Library and attended by teachers, regional librarians, journalists, and other residents. The 2021 documentary film “Wordless” about the Holocaust in Turka (Lviv oblast) was screened, providing a starting point for event participants in a wide-ranging subsequent discussion about discrimination,…
80 Years – We Remember
Marking 80 years since the final liquidation of Rohatyn’s wartime Jewish ghetto, today Jay and I stood with friends before the memorial monument marking the north mass grave at the vodokanal to recite a prayer and remember history at the final resting place for more than 3000 Jewish Holocaust victims from Rohatyn and the surrounding region, including Burshtyn, Khodoriv, Bukachivtsi,…
New Information Signs Installed at Rohatyn’s Jewish Cemeteries
Yesterday in Rohatyn began cold, a few degrees below freezing and with a dusting of snow on the ground, but it ended with warmth and happiness: after three years of planning and preparation, new historical information signs were finally installed at the old and new Jewish cemeteries. We have been assembling components of the signs for quite a while, and…
Remembering 81 Years Ago Today
For the first time since 2020, Jay and I were able to resume our decades’ long annual tradition of being present in Rohatyn on March 20 to honor the memory of the more than 3000 Jewish victims murdered and buried at the mass grave south of Rohatyn’s city center. Last year we could not be here due to the outbreak…
RJH Annual Report 2022
This is a descriptive annual report for Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) covering the calendar year 2022. It’s our sixth consecutive report, reflecting the number of years we have operated as a volunteer-led non-profit NGO in Ukraine. As for every year, this report summarizes our project progress and events, with an outline of our NGO finances as well. This year brought…
Burial Sites Clearing Season Ends for 2022
Our annual clearing of wild vegetation at the Jewish burial sites in Rohatyn got a late start this year due to difficulties caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February and the ongoing devastating war. We reported in summer that we were not able to begin work this year until June, and that we have been reluctant to organize…
Glotzer Holocaust Memoir to be Published as a Bilingual Book
Rohatyn Jewish Heritage is very proud to announce that the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in Kyiv (UCHS) will be publishing the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jack Glotzer of Rohatyn with a new foreword authored by the Center’s director and Holocaust scholar Dr. Anatolii Podolskyi; the book will also be included in the Center’s “Library of Holocaust Memoirs”. Ця стаття…
First Round of Cemetery Clearing in 2022
When we wrote our annual report at the end of last year, we did not anticipate the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February or the impact the ongoing war would have on our regular operations working at the Jewish burial sites in Rohatyn. Not only did the war keep Marla and me from returning to Ukraine until the beginning of…