The Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) group is appealing for aid in helping a new museum in the western Ukraine town develop an exhibit on local Jewish history, culture, and tradition.
Directors of the Opillya Museum, a regional cultural history museum due to open in Rohatyn later this summer, have asked RJH “to contribute images, materials, and text to aid assembly of the Jewish narrative.”
They are seeking “family photos, documents, records, memoirs,
and artifacts, and [are] particularly interested in materials that visually
represent the differences among Rohatyn’s Jews (orthodox, secular, etc).”
RJH, which is carrying out ongoing work at the town’s devastated Jewish cemeteries, notes that until 1939, “Jews comprised almost one third of Rohatyn’s population, and nearly 80% of the businesses then on the market square were Jewish-owned.”
It hopes “to assemble useful and representative information about Rohatyn’s Jewish families and prewar Jewish culture in time for the museum opening, with the involvement from members of the Rohatyn Shtetl Research Group, and to expand and refine the exhibition materials during the coming years.”
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