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…
This is a descriptive annual report for Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) covering the calendar year 2021. As for every year, this report summarizes our project progress and events, with an outline of our NGO finances as well. To put this unusual year in context, see our report for 2020 (prior years’ reports are also accessible in the news section of…
Last month Rohatyn Jewish Heritage participated in a moving and long overdue memorial service. Ця сторінка також доступна українською. Thanks to the Rosolovska family of the village of Chesnyky (Чесники) near Rohatyn, Chesnyky’s prewar Jewish families were honored through the unveiling of a monument to their memory on October 18, next to the common grave where almost a dozen Jews…
Temperatures are dropping fast in western Ukraine now, and Marla and I have concluded that the season for working to clear wild vegetation at the Jewish burial sites in Rohatyn has reached an end. We still expect more rain before the snows begin and plant life goes dormant, but the chill should slow wild growth significantly so that we can…
For the second time so far in 2021, Rohatyn Jewish Heritage team member Vasyl Yuzyshyn was alerted to Jewish headstone fragments discovered outside the Jewish cemetery. Ця стаття також доступна українською. This week a local homeowner, Zinoviy Pavlyuk, reported the fragments to the Opillya local history museum in Rohatyn. Mr. Pavlyuk’s family bought a home on vul. Drahomanova (also called…
Marla and I would like to inform you about the beginnings of a new project which we hope will ultimately provide enhanced, sustainable protection and commemoration of the Jewish mass graves in Rohatyn, and also help to develop and distribute Holocaust-related educational materials for teachers and students in Rohatyn and Ukraine. This is a formal three-year collaborative project involving dozens…