Is there anything in the listed destinations that you would recommend? What is missing in the list? Are there spots important for readers of this blog that should be photographed? I welcome all suggestions! Up to my departure, I am grateful for recommendations. Much needs to be deepened when I get back. It will be mainly photos that I post, supplemented by short texts. Please expect no reports that go into depth. It will depend on internet access in hotels or other places. I’ll take my laptop with me and try to report on the go. I can not even tell you why I want to go there. I do not know what I would find in the woods of Lysynychi. For days, I read the book – I have nightmares for days. He survived and wrote a book about it, leaving a detailed description. Not only in Yanovska but also in the forest of Lysynychi. He was part of the “Sonderkommando 1005”, whose job was to dig up the corpses of the murdered, to burn them and to delete all traces. One of the few survivors of the concentration camp of Yanovska Road in Lviv is Leon Weliczker Wells.
The victims were mostly Jews, but also Soviet prisoners of war, members of the Polish resistance and thousands of Italian soldiers who were after the capitulation of Italy considered as deserters by the Germans. 50,000 to 200,000 people were murdered at this place – no one knows the exact numbers. The SS established an extermination camp there. Father Desbois and his foundation “Yahad in Unum” locate mass graves in Eastern Europe for years, especially in Ukraine.Īmong the places Father Desbois examined, is the forest of Lysynychi. I got aware of it for the first time through the book by Father Patrick Desbois. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 12 of 55: 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from. In the case of Lviv, this includes the forest of Lysynychi. They are separate chapters that need to be explored. The two major urban centers – Lviv and Chernivtsi – are not on the list. I’ve compiled a list of places I want to see. Hardly a place where there is not a overgrown Jewish cemetery, the ruins of a synagogue – or a mass grave. Western Ukraine is covered with traces of Jewish life. But I am glad to have found a language for what occupies me, with this blog and the photo exhibition. You can not do the second step before the first one. So far, I do not even know where to exhibit. A project that has turned out to be more protracted than I originally thought – and more complex. Since August last year I was working on a photo exhibition about the traces of Jewish life in Galicia and Bukovina. I look forward to this trip and associated reunion!īut there’s also another reason to go. There we meet hopefully Mimi and Sylvie – two old time Czernowitzers – as well as Karolina and Katharina, two former volunteers in the work-camps in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi. In Lviv (Lemberg, Lwow), we will rent a car and then drive through Galicia and Bukovina to Chernivtsi (Czernowitz). Among me are my friends Achim and Petra, I already know them from other trips as good travel companions.