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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After a year and a half of Covid prevented us from being in Ukraine on this date in 2020 and 2021, Jay and I were finally able to be in Rohatyn this year on June 6th to mark in person the anniversary of the final liquidation of the wartime Jewish ghetto, 79 years after that terrible event. Joined by Lviv…
Today we were supposed to gather with friends and colleagues from Rohatyn, Lviv, and elsewhere in Ukraine and Europe, and together with Jewish descendants of Rohatyn from Israel and the US, for a memorial service led by Rabbi Kolesnyk of Ivano-Frankivsk to mark the 80-year anniversary of the German Nazi destruction of the Jewish community of Rohatyn, as we had…