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…
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…
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…
Last November, accompanied by Sofia Dyak, Andrij Bojarov, and Tarik Cyril Amar, Jay and I visited Rohatyn with guide and friend Alex Den (Alex Denysenko), and Rabbi Kolesnik of nearby Ivano-Frankivsk. One purpose of the visit was to examine the recent recovery of dozens of Jewish headstones from a courtyard in Rohatyn that during the War was used as a…
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…
I am very happy to report that Alex Den received a letter from Mr. Vorobets in Rohatyn reporting that the large pile of Jewish headstones recently recovered from the courtyard of former Gestapo headquarters (today a private but communal car park for surrounding apartments) were collected and transported on November 24, 2014 to Rohatyn’s “old” Jewish cemetery. Ця стаття також…
Marla and I visited Rohatyn yesterday (06 November 2014) with several others, to check status of the Jewish headstone recovery work and to meet onsite for planning regarding the proposed Jewish cemetery project. The group consisted of: Marla Raucher Osborn, project lead Alex Denysenko, guide & translator Andrij Bojarov, conceptual design lead Rabbi Moyshe-Leib Kolesnik of the Ivano-Frankivsk synagogue Mikhailo…
As promised, here is a report of our visit yesterday to Rohatyn. By separate post, Jay will report on the new headstones discovered and recovered since our last visit in June as well as the status of the memorial project at the Jewish cemetery. Jay and I were accompanied as usual by group member Alex Denysenko (who also made our…
This is a brief summary of the status of the headstone recovery project in Rohatyn, and an outline of progress of the cemetery memorial project, from our visit to Rohatyn last Sunday the 27th of July 2014. I will separately send to Alex Feller a detailed accounting of expenses (for moving stones) in town, photographs documenting the stones most recently…
This is a summary of our latest visit to Rohatyn on Sunday, July 27, 2014. You may recall that this date had been chosen during my last visit to Rohatyn in November 2013 when the Mayor noted that the City was planning 70th anniversary events for July 27th to commemorate the end of the town’s Nazi occupation and liberation by…