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…
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…
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…
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,…