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More Headstone Fragments Found in Zavoda Garden

Every trip to Rohatyn includes a review of the Jewish Headstone Recovery Project, and like always, today some new discoveries were made. This morning we visited several matzevot recovery sites in town with Mr. Vorobets as usual, this time also with long-time project supporter Tom Traber of California; we also visited the Rohatyn old Jewish cemetery (where the stones are…

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Mass Grave Memorials Project Update, May 2016

We have new information and have begun new activity on the Mass Grave Memorials Rehabilitation Project. As we have outlined on the project page, the memorials in Rohatyn are in good condition; to date we have only needed to do some small concrete repairs to the the Soviet-era monument at the southern grave area. However, the actual boundaries of the…

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A Helpful Meeting with Stowarzyszenie Magurycz

Last night Marla and I met with two of the principals of Stowarzyszenie Magurycz (Magurycz Association), a Polish non-profit which organizes and conducts annual cemetery and headstone repair workshops in Poland and around Central Europe. The brothers Szymon Modrzejewski and Filip Modrzejewski have been been doing this work for 30 years (yes, they started when they were teenagers). We met…

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Headstone Recovery Project Update: Two New Fragments

We got word this evening from Alex Denysenko that he had visited Rohatyn earlier today, and had met with Mikhailo Vorobets to review several of the city’s historical sites for research. During the visit, Mr. Vorobets informed Alex that two Jewish headstone pieces had been newly discovered and reported by residents near the St. George church and the Rohatyn club…

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Rohatyn Visit – September 11, 2015

Greetings Rohatyners from beautiful Lviv. Jay and I were in Rohatyn yesterday, accompanied as usual by Alex Denysenko and his driver Vitaly. It was a typically intense day which included planned meetings with locals and unplanned issues brought to our attention by local retired school teacher and our long-standing ally Mr. Vorobets. The latter issues involved recovery of a new…

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Finally Laid To Rest and Remembered

In May 2012, the human remains of 12 individuals (men, women, and children) were discovered in an underground cavity of the Ukrainian Church in our town of Rohatyn. A medical examination determined they were complete, and likely at least 50 years old. This Church during the War bordered the Jewish ghetto, and there have long been stories of Jewish families…

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