My friends and I continued our trip through Galicia in Ukraine on February 23. We started our day in Kolomyia and headed east to Horodenka and then towards Zolotyi Potik. Jewish heritage sites in Hvizdets, Chernelytsia, Zabolotiv and Obertyn were along the way.

Kolomyia – tombstones in a backyard

Kolomyia – tombstones in a backyard

Kolomyia – trace of a mezuzah

Kolomyia – trace of a mezuzah

Hvizdets – Jewish cemetery

Horodenka – old Jewish cemetery

Horodenka – old Jewish cemetery

Horodenka – old Jewish cemetery

Chernelytsia – Jewish cemetery

Chernelytsia – Jewish cemetery

Chernelytsia – Jewish cemetery

Chernelytsia – Jewish cemetery

Zolotyi-Potik – Jewish cemetery

Zolotyi-Potik – Jewish cemetery

Zolotyi-Potik – Jewish cemetery

Zolotyi-Potik – tombstone fragments next to the palace

Zolotyi-Potik – tombstone fragments next to the palace

Zolotyi-Potik – tombstone fragments next to the palace

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