Jay and I are at the Lviv airport flying home today to Paris, and while here I want to give a report of our day in Rohatyn yesterday with Alex Denysenko and Jeremy Borovitz, along with France 2 TV reporter Renaud Lavergne and his cameraman Vincent Barral. As usual, Alex arranged for Vitaly to be our driver in his large…
Thanks to Abe Lyons in Rohatyn for forwarding to me the attached article written by Mr. Vorobets that appeared in a local Ukrainian newspaper about my lecture in November to Rohatyn high school students, and to Jeremy Borovitz for the quick English translation, included below! Warm regards to all, Marla Ця стаття також доступна українською. [Note: This report was originally…
Jeremy Borovitz reported to me yesterday that he had heard from Abram Lyons, the Peace Corps volunteer currently serving in Rohatyn; Abe related some events of the day and forwarded several photos. Abe had been contacted the previous day by Rav Israel Meir Gabai, director of Agudas Ohalei Tzadikim (the organization which had built the ohel in Rohatyn’s old Jewish…
As you know, Jay and I made a 2nd 2012 visit to Rohatyn this last week. We arrived in Lviv at noon on Wednesday November 7 and were greeted by Alex Denysenko and his driver Vitaly, with whom we have traveled on numerous prior occasions. We drove directly from Lviv to Rohatyn and met first with Peace Corps volunteer Abe…
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…