Trochenbrod is internationally known due to Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel “Everything is illuminated” and its Hollywood adaption. Like in the novel, nothing is left of this former all-Jewish town. My friends and I were out there for an excursion on 22 June. On the way back to Lviv we had stops in Lutsk, Stoyaniv and Radekhiv. If you are depressed by the nothingness of Trochenbrod, in Radekhiv you can find a ray of hope.
Trochenbrod – signpost
Trochenbrod – memorials at a mass killing site
Trochenbrod – former town center
Trochenbrod – view in the direction of one of the destroyed cemeteries
Trochenbrod – view in the direction of one of the destroyed cemeteries
Lutsk – massgrave site
Lutsk – returned tombstones at the massgrave site
Lutsk – returned tombstones at the massgrave site
Stoyaniv – Jewish cemetery
Radekhiv – fragments of Jewish tombstones at the Christian cemetery
Radekhiv – fragments of Jewish tombstones at the Christian cemetery
Radekhiv – fragments of Jewish tombstones at the Christian cemetery
Radekhiv – fragments of Jewish tombstones at the Christian cemetery
Radekhiv – fragments of Jewish tombstones at the Christian cemetery
Radekhiv – fragments of Jewish tombstones at the Christian cemetery
Radekhiv – former Jewish shops at the market
Radekhiv – synagogue
Vanished World 