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10 days in Ukraine

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Is it possible to travel to Ukraine under the conditions of the Russian war of aggression? Whatever, at some point in autumn I decided to go. From 20 to 30 December 2022 I was in Lviv, Ternopil and the surrounding area. I wanted to know how my friends were doing – my long-time travelling companions and the activists who care for the Jewish heritage in Galicia. And also Anna, who fled the war and has been living with me since March, wanted to see her boyfriend and her mother again. But beyond that, there was also a very simple reason for this trip: I was homesick for Lviv.

Ternopil - Sandbags in front of a public building
Lviv - View from the balcony of the Hotel George
Lviv - Rush hour traffic
Ternopil - Trace of a mezuzah
Ternopil - Old town
Ternopil - View over the lake
Ternopil - Ruin at the grounds of the Great Synagogue
Zbarazh - Memorial plaque for Ida Fink
Zbarazh - House of the Regenbogen Family
Zbarazh - Houses at the market
Lviv – Jakub Glanzer Shul
Lviv - Jakub Glanzer Shul
Lviv - Entrance to a Soviet bunker
Velyki Mosty - Ruins of the Great Synagogue
Velyki Mosty - Ruins of the Great Synagogue
Belz - Trace of a mezuzah
Belz - former prayer house
Belz - former prayer house
Belz - houses in the centre of the town
Belz - House at the market
Belz - Jewish cemetery
Uhniv - Ruin of a baroque church
Uhniv - Beit Midrash and Great Synagogue
Rava Ruska - Monument to the destroyed Jewish cemetery
Rava Ruska - Monument to the destroyed Jewish cemetery
Lviv - Field of Mars
Lviv - Field of Mars
Lviv - Field of Mars
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A last Galician excursion

Posted on by under Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues

Since today I’m back home, but I have still to report on our last excursion, which led us into the Ukrainian borderlands with Poland, to Velyki Mosty, Belz and Uhniv.

Velyki Mosty synagogue
Velyki Mosty synagogue
Velyki Mosty – mass grave site
Belz Jewish cemetery
Belz Jewish cemetery
Belz Jewish cemetery
Belz Jewish cemetery
Belz Jewish cemetery
Belz – farmers on the way home
Belz – prayer room
Belz – Catholic church
Uhniv – Catholic church
Uhniv – Catholic church
A curious goat next to Uhniv’s Catholic church
Uhniv – beit midrash and synagogue
Uhniv – beit midrash and synagogue
Uhniv synagogue
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A Journey in Black and White

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

My journey in February through Western Ukraine – through Galicia, Bukovina and Podolia – was another opportunity to take more photos for two exhibitions in autumn. Here is a first selection, including images from Lviv (Lemberg, Lwow), Sokal, Velyki Mosty, Zhovkva, Staryi Sambir, Ternopil, Sataniv and Chernivtsi (Czernowitz). What are your favorites?

Sokal, synagogue
Velyki Mosty, synagogue
Velyki Mosty, synagogue
Sokal, remains of the Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir, Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir, Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir, Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir, Jewish cemetery
Staryi Sambir, synagogue
Zhovkva, trace of a mezuzah
Lviv (Lemberg, Lwow), remains of the Jewish cemetery
Ternopil (Tarnopol), Jewish cemetery
Ternopil (Tarnopol), Jewish cemetery
Ternopil (Tarnopol), Jewish cemetery
Sataniv, Jewish cemetery
Sataniv, Jewish cemetery
Sataniv, Jewish cemetery
Sataniv, Jewish cemetery
Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Jewish cemetery
Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Jewish cemetery
Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Jewish cemetery
Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Jewish cemetery
Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Jewish cemetery
Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Jewish cemetery

North of Lviv

Posted on by under Eastern Galicia, Synagogues

A long day trip through Galicia – north of Lviv (Lemberg, Lwow) – to the towns of Sokal, Velyki Mosty and Zhovkva. Bright sunshine, the winter is coming to an end. We pass a down going industrial landscape, traces of the past and the dawn of a new, still undetermined Ukraine.

Sokal synagogue
Sokal – guards in front of an occupied public building
Sokal – older ladies in front of an occupied public building
Sokal – remains of Jewish headstones
Velyki Mosty – synagogue
Velyki Mosty – synagogue
Zhovkva – traces of a mezuzah at the market square
Zhovkva – remains of the Jewish cemetery
Zhovkva – remains of the Jewish cemetery
Zhovkva – remains of the Jewish cemetery
Zhovkva synagogue

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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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