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| nuthatch | profile | all galleries >> Ukraine >> Mogilev-Podolsky | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 leaving Kamenets-Podolsky with Alex, our first stop is a former phospate mine near Dunaivtsi, ... |
 ...site of a killing during the Shoah, and today a memorial |
 continuing on to Mogilev-Podolsky through autumn colors |
 Marla at the birthplace of her grandfather and many other Brownsteins |
 we visit the large Jewish cemetery on ridges above the city |
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 the site is well-kept |
 a memorial to WWII victims in the ghetto and elsewhere in town |
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 there are also sections for Bukovina Jews brought here during the war |
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 heading back to the van to see the town |
 a ghetto memorial in the downtown... |
 ...and a monument to the righteous of the town |
 at a park on the riverfront, a historical marker about the naming of Mogilev... |
 ...and traditions continue into the present! |
 a view across the Dniester to Moldova |
 intact 19th and early 20th-c. buildings downtown |
 hmmm... here's a city history museum! |
 the director is very helpful with the info they have on local Jewish history... |
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 ...and she directs us to the nearby Shoah museum |
 we are pleased to find Jewish community leaders meeting here |
 Marla with Mr. Brechman, head of the community |
 the museum provides info on the Shoah here and around Europe |
 local Brownsteins who lived in the ghetto: Alexander... |
 ...Tatiana... |
 ...Raisa |
 the community also keeps an index of graves in the Jewish cemetery |
 a dozen or so Brownsteins to research later! |
 and a useful map of the cemetery layout |
 among other exhibits, material from the life of the French writer Madeleine Kahn |
 the community also coordinates care and meals for local elderly |
 now Mr. Brechman takes us to the town's working synagogue |
 during Soviet times this was a private home, where prayer services were hidden |
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 the nightly service will begin soon, but we have a long road home to Lviv.... |