Rohatyn Jewish Heritage

11/08/2026

🇺🇦 ✡ A huge thank you to our very dear and long time friend in Rohatyn, Tetiana Petriv (Тетяна Петрів), who notified us today of this small but beautiful Jewish headstone fragment found at the city cemetery. Later this week, she will make arrangements to transport the piece back to Rohatyn's old Jewish cemetery.

Tetiana is director of the museum at the UNESCO listed Holy Spirit wooden church in Rohatyn, and has been a key ally of Rohatyn Jewish Heritage for years, especially sensitive to all forms of historical and cultural heritage. This is not the first displaced Jewish headstone that has found its way back home thanks to her: earlier this year, Tetiana and her brother-in-law together recovered another Jewish headstone left anonymously at the WWI Austro-Hungarian soldiers' cemetery adjacent to the church. Tetiana also joined us during our visit to Rohatyn in June to mark 83 years since the final destruction of the wartime Jewish ghetto 💙💛 Дуже Дякую!

26/07/2026

✡ 🇺🇦 Despite the war, our work continues uploading photos of Jewish headstones recovered to date in Rohatyn, along with epitaph translations (from Hebrew, Polish, and German into ENG 🇺🇸 and UKR 🇺🇦), correlating information to vital records where possible to identify specific individuals and families. Working with Ukrainian colleagues, Rohatyn Jewish Heritage has now completed about 50% of the Rohatyn portion of the database, and every uploaded stone enriches and broadens our understanding of Rohatyn's prewar Jewish community! The Rohatyn entries join 100s of other headstones already databased online for the historic Galician cities of Lviv, Dobromyl, Zbarazh, and Sokal:
ENG 🇺🇸 - https://jewishstonesua.org/
UKR 🇺🇦 - https://jewishstonesua.org/uk

✡ 🇺🇦 This monumental headstone database project could not have been possible without indispensable, gifted Ukrainian colleagues: Sasha Nazar of the Sholom Aleichem Society of Jewish Culture in Lviv, Tanya Fedoriv (Тетяна Федорів) of Zbarazh, Iryna Nebesna of Ternopil, Oksana Savchuk of Sokal, Vasyl Yuzyshyn, and Rohatyn Jewish Heritage 🫶 Most importantly, it demonstrates the power of partnerships to support heritage documentation and recovery of Jewish memory. To read more:
ENG 🇺🇸 https://rohatynjewishheritage.org/2026/05/status-report-headstones-database/
UKR 🇺🇦 https://rohatynjewishheritage.org/2026/05/звіт-проєкту-бази-даних-надгробків/

20/07/2026

✡ 💛 💙 Summer means clearing, cutting, and mowing!
Rohatyn Jewish Heritage continues to prioritize keeping all four Jewish burial sites in Rohatyn looking loved and cared for. We do this working with our local partners, Ihor Zalypko (Ігор Залипко) and Vasyl Yurkiv (Василь Юрків). Working together we can accomplish so much!
💛 💙 ✡ Разом можна дуже багато!

Photos of both old and new Jewish cemeteries, and north and south WWII Holocaust sites.

09/07/2026

Our great pleasure to support the Biblioteka Ukraińska w Gdańsku 📚 Providing a reading, culture, and literature space in Gdansk for Ukrainian adults and children alike 📚

26/06/2026

Wishing all our friends, families, and supporters a calm, peaceful weekend. Shabbat shalom!

21/06/2026

Rohatyn Jewish Heritage is pleased to report that the "new" Jewish cemetery in Rohatyn completed its second clearing of the 2026 season this weekend. We thank cemetery neighbor Vasyl Yurkiv (Василь Юрків) and his son Artur for their continued hard work ✡ 💙💛 Дуже Дякую!

11/06/2026

For our English speaking friends: about our visit this week to Rohatyn:
🇺🇸 ENG: https://rohatynjewishheritage.org/2026/06/83-years-ghetto-victims/
For our Ukrainian friends: Читайте про наш день цього тижня в Рогатині:
🇺🇦 UKR: https://rohatynjewishheritage.org/2026/06/83-х-роковин-ліквідація-гетто/

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08/06/2026

✡ Despite this being day 1566 of Russia's brutal full scale invasion of Ukraine, we still come - and we will continue to come - to remember the more than 3000 Jewish victims of Rohatyn and surrounding towns and villages such as Burshtyn, Khodoriv, and Bukachivtsi executed here - 83 years ago. Baruch Dayan HaEmet. Ми пам'ятаємо.

🇺🇦 Rohatyn Jewish Heritage is immensely grateful to long-time Ukrainian friends joining us again this year to remember: Iryna Nebesna, Ternopil journalist and heritage advocate, Tania Fedoriv, Zbarazh historian and researcher of the city's Jewish past, and Wito Nadaszkiewicz, Lviv attorney and current CEO for Rohatyn Jewish Heritage, as well as Tetiana Petriv (Тетяна Петрів), director of Rohatyn's museum at the historic UNESCO listed Holy Spirit wooden church, and Ihor Zalypko, engineer of the vodokanal and caretaker of the memorial site.

05/06/2026

Rohatyn's "old" Jewish cemetery has had its first clearing of the 2026 season!

We are very grateful to Ihor Zalypko, long-time friend and lead engineer at the "vodokanal" for his work in keeping these vulnerable historic sites looking tidy, tended, and loved - this is his 6th summer working as part of our team 💙💛 Дуже Дякую!

24/05/2026

💙💛 Rohatyn Jewish Heritage is very pleased to report that both north and south Jewish wartime mass graves in Rohatyn have had their first clearing of the 2026 season, and that over the next several days Rohatyn's "old" Jewish cemetery will also have its first seasonal clearing!

We are very grateful to Ihor Zalypko, long-time friend and lead engineer at the "vodokanal" for his work in keeping these vulnerable historic sites looking tidy, tended, and loved - this is his 6th summer working as part of our team 💙💛 Дуже Дякую 💙💛