From Kolomyia eastwards and back to Lviv

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Christian Herrmann under Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries

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 – trace of a mezuzah

Hvizdets – Jewish cemetery

Horodenka – old Jewish cemetery

Chernelytsia – Jewish cemetery

Zolotyi-Potik – Jewish cemetery

Zolotyi-Potik – tombstone fragments next to the palace

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Time Traveling between Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries, Northern Bukovina, Synagogues

Last Sunday, my friends and I continued our trip to Chernivtsi (Czernowitz). We had stops in Lysets, Bohorodchany, Nadvirna, Deliatyn, Kolomyia, Kosiv, Kuty and Vyzhnytsia to visit Jewish cemeteries, former synagogues, Hasidic courts and mass grave sites.

Lysets Jewish cemetery

Bohorodchany Jewish cemetery

Nadvirna Jewish cemetery

Deliatyn mass grave memorial

Deliatyn Jewish cemetery

Kolomyia – Old Jewish Cemetery

Kolomyia – trace of a mezuzah

Kolomyia – former synagogue at Orenstein Street

Kuty Jewish cemetery

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South of Kolomiya

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Christian Herrmann under Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries

May 1. Kolomiya turns out to be a pretty and lively town. We decide to stay a day longer than we originally planned, and to take a trip from here to southern Galicia. Yabloniv, Kosiv and Kuty are our destinations.