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…
As the topic line says, just a quick note – nearly midnight and sitting in our hotel room in Rohatyn with Alex Feller, sorting photos and notes, and talking about the events of the day. The Jewish headstones scattered around town seem to have no end in sight. While viewing and photographing the dozen or so we already knew about…
The following is a summary of our 13 April 2011 visit to Rohatyn. This, as you already know, was our second trip since having landed in Lviv the end of March. We arrived in Rohatyn by rental car just before noon, after having booked a room for the night at Hotel Fortuna in Cherche, 5 kilometers away. We were to…
Yesterday Jay and I made our first visit since 2008 to Rohatyn. We were accompanied by researcher and fellow Rohatyn group member Alex Denysenko and his driver, Vitaly. For this first visit, we decided to make as our primary goal finding the sites we were unable to locate in Rohatyn during our wintry 2008 visit; namely, the “new” Jewish cemetery…