Tag Archives: Sataniv

From Lviv to Chernivtsi

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

Our journey through Galicia, Bukovina and Bessarabia goes on. During the last two days we went further south. Between the regional metropolises of Lviv and Chernivtsi we visited the towns and villages of Busk, Olesko, Brody, Skalat, Hrymailiv, Sataniv, Husiatyn, Chabarivka, Zalishchyky and Yuzhynets. What a trip!

Busk – Jewish cemetery
Busk – Jewish cemetery
Busk – Jewish cemetery – there is always somebody to tell the story
Olesko synagogue
Olesko synagogue
Brody – Jewish cemetery
Brody – Jewish cemetery
Skalat synagogue
Skalat synagogue
Hrymailiv – interior of the synagogue
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Chabarivka – tombstone fragments from the destroyed Jewish cemetery of Husiatyn
Zalishchyky synagogue
Chorus in Yuzhynets
Yuzhynets – war memorial opposite of the former property of the Reich family

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Five Days in Galicia in Black and White

Posted on by under Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues

It was a short trip of only five days in April when my friends Marla, Jay, Vasyl, Alex and I traveled in Lviv and Ternopil region in Galicia, Ukraine. An intense trip to explore what is left of the Jewish heritage. As always I had two cameras with me – a digital one for colour photographs and an analogue one for black and white. Analogue photography is a slow business, but finally here is now a selection of what I got: synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in the towns of Berezhany, Budaniv, Drohobych, Husiatyn, Korolivka, Monastyryska, Pidhaitsi and Sataniv.

Berezhany Jewish cemetery
Berezhany Jewish cemetery
Budaniv synagogue
Drohobych synagogue – recently renovated
Husiatyn synagogue
Korolivka Jewish cemetery
Monastyryska synagogue
Pidhaitsi synagogue
Pidhaitsi Jewish cemetery
Pidhaitsi Jewish cemetery
Sataniv Jewish cemetery

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A World of Stones

Posted on by under Eastern Ukraine, Jewish Cemeteries, Podolia, Synagogues

Our little group continued its trip through Galicia today. We have been to Hrymailiv, Sataniv, Husiatyn, Chabarivka and Probizhna. A long day on the road. Many things we experienced are connected to the destruction of Jewish life in the region – the Holocaust and the post-war erasure of remaining testimonies of Jewish presence. If stones could speak…

Hrymailiv synagogue
Hrymailiv – former Jewish cemetery
Hrymailiv – former Jewish cemetery
Sataniv
Sataniv synagogue
Sataniv synagogue
Sataniv Jewish cemetery
Sataniv Jewish cemetery
Sataniv Jewish cemetery
Sataniv Jewish cemetery
Sataniv Jewish cemetery
Husiatyn synagogue
Husiatyn – former Jewish cemetery
Chabarivka – former collective farm “Communist”
Chabarivka – former collective farm “Communist”
Chabarivka – former collective farm “Communist”
Chabarivka – former collective farm “Communist”
Chabarivka – former collective farm “Communist”
Probizhna synagogue
Probizhna Jewish cemetery
Probizhna Jewish cemetery

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A first trip to Podolia

Posted on by under Jewish Cemeteries, Podolia, Synagogues

Writing is difficult for me today. More than 20 people have been killed in Kiev yesterday, the special police forces continue to besiege Maidan, the center of protests. It is impossible to ignore. Unfortunately I can not do more than express my solidarity with the brave Ukrainians, who are fighting against a corrupt and criminal government, and to report on what I see and experience. That’s why I hold on to my travel plans. Today I was in Sataniv.

My marshrutka to Sataniv
Sataniv – synagogue
Sataniv – synagogue
Sataniv – synagogue
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Sataniv – Jewish cemetery
Ternopil – local Maidan
Ternopil – local Maidan
Ternopil – local Maidan

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Plans for 2014

Posted on by under Eastern Galicia, Northern Bukovina

A new year, new plans. In the second half of February 2014 I will travel in Ukraine again – to places that are familiar to me and others that are unknown territory yet. Do you have recommendations?
map of Galicia and Bukovina

1. Lviv (Lwow, Lemberg), 2. Staryi Sambir, 3. Velyki Mosty, 4. Burshtyn, 5. Buchach, 6. Hrymailiv, 7. Sataniv, 8. Husiatyn, 9. Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), 10. Novoselitsa

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