Baptist minister helps restore Jewish graves destroyed by Nazis
(14 Sep 2018) LEADIN
An American couple is working to restore a damaged Jewish cemetery in a Ukrainian town near where Jews were massacred during Second World War.
With the help of volunteers old gravestones that the Nazis destroyed are now being returned and restored to preserve the area's troubled history.
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A team of volunteers arrives at the Jewish cemetery in the Ukrainian town of Rohatyn.
Before the Second World War the town had long been home to thousands of Jewish citizens.
Many of the old graves here were destroyed by the Nazis and then taken away to be used for building material.
For years the cemetery became forgotten and was overgrown with weeds. Now it's being cleaned-up and restored to remember the town's Jewish history.
Marla Raucher Osborn is leading the clean-up. She's the Head of Rohatyn Jewish Heritage, an organisation run with her husband Jay Osborn.
Marla's grandmother Chaje (Annie) was born in Rohatyn. However, before the start of World War I her family emigrated to US.
The American couple have been gathering old headstones that were scattered in various places, and are bringing them back to the cemetery.
The first things that almost always happened under the occupation is the burning down of dynamiting of the synagogues and then the destruction of cemeteries. And the headstones were removed often times using Jewish forced labour. They were usually broken into smaller pieces and used as either building materials or for paving roads. And the headstones you see here today have all been returned to the Jewish cemetery from roads, private gardens, private residences and foundations in town, says Raucher Osborn.
The volunteers have come from all over the world to help, like Baptist minister Steve Reece from Atlanta.
Armed with a grass cutter, he begins clearing the site.
In 2010, he launched the Matzevah Foundation, named for the Hebrew word for a gravestone, which organizes Jewish cemetery restoration projects in Europe.
He explains why he got involved in the project: To me simply bringing together people who are separated by distance, by space, by conflict and I saw the Jewish cemetery as a way to bring Jews and Christians together in a common place where they can work together with one another to do what we are doing here in Rohatyn.
His foundation is working in collaboration with the Osborns to keep the region's Jewish history alive.
In my understanding working on the cemetery is a way in which Jews and Christians can work together toward a common goal which is to preserve Jewish heritage. And it is an opportunity for us to communicate interact, to have dialogue, to learn to work together, to do things that are practical. So to me it's something very practical and the cemetery provides a way to do that, says Reece.
Volunteer Rachel Romero also travelled from the United States to lend a hand.
I really do feel like it's important to honor the memory of Jews who lived in this part of the world and had very rich culture and life for hundreds of years. So I feel like by coming here we are recognizing that. So often we only talk about the Holocaust and how Jews died here in 1940's but there was 600 years of history before that, she says.
The cemetery holds particular significance for Jewish history as it was also the site of the massacre of thousands of people by the Nazis.
Osborn says the Jewish community was rounded up during the Second World War and taken to the cemetery to be killed.
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Старые склепы, Прогулка по Польскому кладбищу в Житомире (2019)
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Польское кладбище находящееся в Житомире, является памятником архитектуры XIX века и одно из старейших польских некрополей Украины, наравне с известным Личаковским во Львове. Участок под кладбище был куплен на территории Новой Рудни (ныне улица Короленко) в 1799 году. Основано в 1801 году. Кладбище известно фамильными захоронениями известных шляхетных династий Домбровских, Монюшко, Чацких. Тут находятся могилы первого польского военного летчика, погибшего в бою, Бронислава Мациевича; всемирно известного композитора и пианиста, ученика Ференца Листа Юлиуша Зарембского; почетного гражданина Житомира генерала Владислава Прессера; художника-академика Леонардо Страшинского; участника Крымской войны 1853 – 1856 годов генерал-майора В.В. Качинского; купца 2-й гильдии Тайбера Рудольфа Карловича и других выдающихся деятелей. Возле недавно отреставрированной часовни Святого Станислава, построенной в 1841–1846 годах и разрушенной во время Второй мировой войны, находятся захоронения католического духовенства, начиная с середины позапрошлого столетия. Рядом с величественным памятником епископу Антонию Каролю Недзляковскому есть скромная могила жертвы сталинского террора ксендза Анджея Федуковича. Благодаря ему был построен Епископский дом в Житомире (теперь Областной краеведческий музей). Многие уникальные памятники на кладбище в советское время были уничтожены, все склепы взломаны и разграблены мародерами. Кладбище закрыто для захоронений с 1976 года.
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The former Sarny Jewish Cemetery
The small city of Sarny Ukraine, August 2007. This parking lot and soccer field in the distance is what remains of the former Jewish cemetery in Sarny Ukraine, formally Poland prior to WWII. The Nazi's barbaric desecration of the cemetery is matched in kind by the neglect and disrespect by the citizens of this city towards their former citizens interred beneath.
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Димерській історик Григорій Іванович Алексеєнко розповідає про будинок де розміщувалося гестапо та закатоване єврейське подружжя. Також згадує дитячі кістки, знайдені в дворі гестапо при земляних роботах в 1960х роках
Jews from Ukraine 1925 Ввре в в Украні 1925
Holocaust by Bullets with Father Patrick Desbois
Some experts say up to one-third of all Holocaust victims were executed - not in concentration camps, but shot by Nazi troops as they invaded Russia. 1.5 million Jews, many women, children and the elderly, were killed in the Holocaust by bullets. Nazareth College is honored to host Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest who has dedicated his life searching for mass graves and recording the memories of elderly witnesses. Fr. Desbois presents Holocaust by Bullets: A Model for Mass Crimes of Today on Monday, March 24, 2014 at 7 p.m. in the Nazareth College Arts Center's Callahan Theater.
Father Patrick Desbois - Yahad In Unum - Investigating mass graves from the Holocaust
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Karen Roekard in the Great Synagogue in Zolkiew, Ukraine 2005
My aunt Etta Rosenfeld Rokart zl married a man from Zolkiew, a town in Ukraine 10 kilometers from her mother's family's town Rawa Ruska, and ~30 kilometers from her father's family town of Belz.This is also the town into which Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi zl was born.
During the course of my research, I spent a total of several months in Poland and Ukraine. Because the Great Synagogue in Zolkiew was a synagogue where members of my family are likely to have davenned (prayed) and because it is a twin of the destroyed great shul in Belz, which was my father's family's shul, I wanted to go into it, even though it is very ruined and locked up.
Although I was told that this would be very difficult, if not impossible to get in, Alex Dunai, my very able guide, was able to get me in three times.The first time i was in awe and determined to get in with a video camera because i knew i wanted to sing, to daaven, to pray in it and to have it recorded. I knew that this never would have happened had life continued as it was pre-WWII and had i grown up in that neighborhood. But it didn't and I didn't and I didn't know if anyone else ever would sing and record themselves. The energy inside and the acoustics were amazing.
Alex got me in a second time with a video camera but when we got back to Lviv, we saw that the recorder hadn't worked properly. we went back again early in the morning the next day, the day I was leaving and thankfully, it all worked.
When I heard that Reb Zalman zl was a native son of Zolkiew, I made this video for him which i just found. The quality doesn't seem great. If I find the original, I will upload it instead.
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In Dnepropetrovsk opened a memorial to fallen heroes of Ukraine
Monument to start creating more when the first graves of soldiers, says the author of the Memorial Vladimir Nizhnik. For its production took about three months. Vladimir Nizhnik is not only the author, but also a patron. The man decided to build his own expense a memorial to Ukrainian soldiers.
According to the author, the hill on which stands a monument symbolizes the mound and arch - the cloth that covers the graves of fallen soldiers. Top - the image of the Virgin Mary, from the bottom - a marble woman who mourns the dead.
At the opening of the memorial attended by representatives of local government, military, volunteers and relatives of those killed in the east of the soldiers.
On Krasnopolye cemetery are buried 173 soldiers, the faces of some of them installed and reburied.
Besides buried in the cemetery of unknown soldiers Krasnopolye in morgues Dnepropetrovsk are another 96 fighters, whose names have not been established.
Rabbi David Golinkin reading his grandfather's words at synagogue in Zhitomir
Rabbi David Golinkin's grandfather served as rabbi in the Ukraine town of Zhitomir. His father was born there as well. Now, almost 100 years later, Rabbi Golinkin returns and reads the words his grandfather wrote in 1913.
UKRAINE: DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG TO CREATE MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVE
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It has the epic proportions of Schindler's List and employs state-of-the-art technology like Jurassic Park - but Steven Spielberg's latest multimillion-dollar project will never make a cent at the box office.
The three-time Academy award winning U-S director is returning to the theme which gained him international recognition with Schindler's List.
Spielberg is recording the eyewitness testimonies of thousands of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust on videotape to create the largest on-line multimedia archive of its kind.
The project comes as new evidence emerges that more people than previously thought died in the World War Two Nazi genocide.
The Jewish cemetery in the Ukrainian town of Zhitomir.
When the Nazis wiped out the Ukrainian Jewish population there was no-one left to tend the graves.
Cherna Gilbovskaya grew up in the Jewish ghetto in Zhitomir.
When she was 14 years old, the ghetto was liquidated by the Germans.
She survived - but all her close relatives were murdered.
Her story is now being recorded by a film crew from the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation - 'Shoah' is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust.
Here she points out to them the place where her grandmother was buried alive in 1941.
Cherna is one of thousands of survivors across the world to take part in the project, which was set-up by U-S film director-producer Steven Spielberg.
It comes as newly released documents show that the number of Jews to have died in the Nazi genocide could be greater than the six million previously thought.
According to documents recently made public by the British Government, Nazi short- wave radio messages, decoded by the British , prove that the killings started as the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and many atrocities were carried out not only by the SS but by municipal police forces in Western Russia.
Such a discovery reinforces the need for a permanent and comprehensive archive of first- hand experiences about the Holocaust.
Interviews with survivors have been taking place all over the world but the most pertinent are those filmed in countries such as Ukraine where the persecution occurred.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
In the Ukraine it's one of the few countries where we're going to be interviewing the survivors on the location where the Holocaust happened. And what's the best way to tell the story but to show where it really happened. So in the Ukraine we are going to be doing many walking interviews which means that the survivors will take us to the forest or to the cellar where they were hiding during the war.
SUPERCAPTION: Anya Verkhovskaya, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Eastern Europe
Most of the world's estimated 325,000 survivors are now in their 70s and 80s - so the project is a race against time.
The Foundation plans to record the testimonies of 50-thousand Holocaust survivors by the end of 1998 and 150-thousand by the turn of the century.
So far more than 23-thousand interviews have been completed.
A carefully trained interviewer prepares the survivor for the filming, collecting information and gathering related photographs and documents.
These are filmed along with the survivor's comments at the end of the interview.
Mikhail Rosenberg is now 64.
In 1941 - when he was nine years old - his whole family was shot by the Nazis.
He was one of the few survivors from the Jewish village of Romanovka, 130 kilometres from the Ukraine's capital Kiev.
Romanovka's other inhabitants were executed by firing squad.
He managed to escape and hid for two years in the forest before joining the Soviet Army and fighting the Germans on the Eastern Front.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
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HISTORIC EVENT! White Russians From Europe Finally Reunited With Their Mother Church in Russia
A delegation from the Archdiocese, headed by Archbishop John (Renneto) of Dubna, arrived on Moscow on Saturday, November 2, to take part in the celebrations and receive the official document of accession.
On Saturday, members of the delegation will visit Donskoy Monastery, which houses the relics of Patriarch St. Tikhon, by whose decision the Western European parishes were united in 1921 into one administration, the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, and the Moscow Diocesan House, where the Local Council of 1917-1918 was held, at which St. Tikhon was elected as Patriarch.
On November 3, Patriarch Kirill will lead the Sunday Liturgy in Christ the Savior Cathedral, with the participation of the delegation from Western Europe. During the service, Pat. Kirill will present Abp. John with a Patriarchal and Synodal gramota, recognizing the reunion of the Archdiocese with the Russian Church.
On November 4, Pat. Kirill and Abp. John will concelebrate the Divine Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
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