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A Summer in Black and White

Posted on by under Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries, Northern Bukovina, Podolia, Synagogues

I was traveling twice to Ukraine during this year’s summer – once in June with my friend Sylvia de Swaan, once in July to support the volunteers of SVIT Ukraine in their work in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz). It took an unusually long time to develop the black and white films of these two months, to scan them, make a selection and finally work them over. Now this has been completed, and here is a first selection.

Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) – former synagogue
Chernivtsi in Podolia – Jewish cemetery
Zolotyi Potik (Galicia) – Jewish cemetery
Kuty (Galicia) – Jewish cemetery
Zolotyi Potik (Galicia) – Jewish cemetery
Mohyliv-Podilskyi (Podolia) – Jewish cemetery
Cariera de Piatra – former territory of Romanian and Soviet concentration camp
Chernivtsi in Podolia – abandoned Jewish home
Lviv (Lwow, Lemberg) – Jakob Glanzer Shul, former Hasidic synagogue

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In Transnistria

Posted on by under Jewish Cemeteries, Podolia, Synagogues

Transnistria was a Romanian deportation zone for Jews and Gypsies during the war. Thousands died of typhus, inhuman working conditions, of hunger or were shot. My fellow traveler Sylvia was here more than 70 years ago when she was a little girl. Today we explored some places in Transnistria – now part of Podolia in Ukraine.

Nemiriv – mass grave
Bratslav synagogue
Bratslav synagogue
Bratslav Jewish cemetery
Bratslav Jewish cemetery
Bratslav Jewish cemetery
Tulchyn Jewish cemetery
Tulchyn Jewish cemetery
Tulchyn Jewish cemetery
Tulchyn – former ghetto
Tulchyn – former ghetto
Tulchyn – former ghetto
Tulchyn – former ghetto
Cariera de Piatra
Cariera de Piatra
Cariera de Piatra
Cariera de Piatra
Mykhailivka – site of former concentration camp
Mykhailivka – site of former concentration camp
Mykhailivka – site of former concentration camp

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Plans For June

Posted on by under Podolia

From June 5 to 15 I will travel in Ukraine again. Together with my friend Sylvia de Swaan I will thereby explore an area that is unknown to most people. However, those who have heard of Transnistria, think of the place with horror.

Travel locations in Transnistria

Travel locations in Transnistria

1. Bratslav, 2. Tulchyn, 3. Cariera de Piatra, 4. Mykhailivka, 5. Chernivtsi, 6. Mohyliv-Podilskyi

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