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

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