If you travel in Galicia, you are crossing a continent. The region is a compaction of European history. Leaving Chortkiv in the morning, Marla, Jay, Alex, Vasyl and I have been to Buchach, Monastyryska, Pidhaitsi and Peremyshliany today. A day of discoveries – pleasant and painful ones.
Pidhaitsi synagogue
Pidhaitsi synagogue
Pidhaitsi – trace of a mezuzah
Pidhaitsi
Pidhaitsi
Pidhaitsi
Pidhaitsi
Pidhaitsi Jewish cemetery
Pidhaitsi Jewish cemetery
Pidhaitsi Jewish cemetery
Pidhaitsi Jewish cemetery
Buchach market
Buchach – birth place of Siemon Wiesenthal
Buchach – bus station with Jewish cemetery in the background
Buchach Jewish cemetery
Buchach Jewish cemetery
Buchach Jewish cemetery
Buchach Jewish cemetery
Monastyryska synagogue
collective farm built of Jewish tombstones
collective farm built of Jewish tombstones
collective farm built of Jewish tombstones
collective farm built of Jewish tombstones
Peremyshliany – remains of Jewish tombstones
Peremyshliany – remains of Jewish tombstones
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