Marla, Jay, Vasyl and I were on the road again for another two days trip through Galicia during this weekend. From Lviv we headed south-west towards the Carpathian Mountains. Komarno, Rudky, Sambir and Staryi Sambir were our targets on Saturday. A trip between hope and depression.
Komarno – former rabbinical residenc
Komarno – location of the destroyed synagogue
Komarno – fragments of tombstones from a construction ground returned to the Jewish cemetery
Komarno – Jewish cemetery
Rudky – Great Synagogue
Rudky – building of the Judenrat
Rudky – former Gestapo headquarter
Marla, Volodya and Vasyl talking
Rudky – territory of the Jewish cemetery
Rudky – Holocaust memorial made of Jewish tombstones
Rudky – Holocaust memorial made of Jewish tombstones
Rudky – Jewish tombstones from the yard of Gestapo headquarter at the Holocaust memorial
Rudky – Holocaust memorial
Rudky – memorial for NKVD victims
Sambir – restaurant sign from the Austrian period
Sambir – Great Synagogue
Sambir – Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir – Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir – Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir – Jewish cemetery
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