Los Angeles native Marla Raucher Osborn has been researching her family history in Rohatyn, now in western Ukraine, for a number of years. She made her first visit there in 2008 and returned almost a dozen times in 2011 while … continue reading →
News media in L’viv are reporting on the discovery of fragments of matzevot, Jewish gravestones, near L’viv — they are thought to be fragments from the city’s destroyed Old Cemetery, which is now occupied by a large market. According … continue reading →
Conference in L’viv in November 2012: “The Ukrainian and Jewish Artistic and Architectural Milieus of Lwów/Lemberg/Lviv: From Ausgleich to the Holocaust.” Call for Papers — Deadline April 1, 2012 From the organizers: The conference focuses on artists and architects … continue reading →
The inimitable Meylakh Sheykhet is interviewed and profiled in the Canadian Jewish News in an article by Sheldon Kirshner highlighting his work preserving Jewish cemeteries and mass grave sites in Ukraine. “We are obliged to do this,” he said … continue reading →
