This begins a difficult topic. In late January 2012, the Ukrainian Church on the Rynek began extensive renovation work. Below the church there exists a large underground cellar. Human remains were found here. The location of these bones and this portion of the cellar – several meters below street level – is across from the building that formerly housed the…
Jay and I returned to Krakow yesterday from a visit to Rohatyn. We traveled with group member Alex Denysenko & his driver Vitaly, as we have many times in the past. This trip happened almost exactly one year since our first meeting in May 2011 with Ihor Klishch of the Rohatyn library and Mr. Vorobets. It was at this initial…
For those of you who have been to Rohatyn in the last 6 months or so, you may have noticed that there is now a white building standing over three of the important remaining graves at the top of the hill (closest to the entrance) in the old Jewish cemetery at the south end of town. Ця стаття також доступна…
Today we went to Hesed-Arieh of Lviv to meet with Hesed Director Ada Dianova and Mr. Yaremkiv of Rohatyn. The purpose of the meeting was to be present for the donation of the box of Jewish papers and scraps to Hesed’s Museum by Mr. Yaremkiv, the Rohatyn Director of the Internat (boarding school for children). Ця стаття також доступна українською.…
Yesterday Jay and I went with group member Alex Denysenko to meet with Hesed-Arieh (Lviv) Director Ada Dianova about having her on-site Museum accept donation of the box of Rohatyn Jewish papers collected by the Director of Rohatyn’s Internat (Boarding) school. (You will recall that the fate of this rare and important collection of papers from the Rohatyn ghetto during…
Yesterday Jay and I visited Rohatyn. This was our first trip back since having left Lviv in mid-June. There is much to report. To begin, I would like to express our heartfelt thanks to group member Alex Denysenko (and his driver Vitaly) who once again accompanied us and served as translator. There were some difficult moments on this visit, that…
Jay and I returned to Lviv last night from Rohatyn and I wanted to give you a summary of our latest visit. This was our final trip to the town this Spring – we are leaving Lviv later this coming week. We will return to Lviv in mid-September and stay until 10 November, during which time we will probably make…
The interview with Alex Feller and Marla Raucher Osborn for Ukrainian TV news, conducted in the Rohatyn town library on 17May2011 (as described in an earlier report) is now available on YouTube on the Rohatyn library’s channel. Alex Denysenko provided language interpretation during the interview; Ihor Klishch, Yefim Kogan and I created the English subtitles in the YouTube version. Ця…
Dobry den and good afternoon, I just wanted to give you a brief summary of yesterday’s visit to Rohatyn – there were 7 of us: me, Jay, Alex Feller, and Mitchell & Dori Glotzer, along with Alex Denysenko and his driver Vitaly. We left Lviv around 9:00 a.m. and returned home just after midnight. Hundreds more photos were taken by…
It is very late after a full day of exploring Rohatyn, examining and locating some family homes, and documenting Jewish gravestones in the old cemetery. So I will make this quick. I have uploaded [to the genealogy group private site] images of all of the tombstones that we were able to photograph and document at this time. These include tombstones…