Work horses in Mikulin |
Modern? farm machinery in Mikulin |
Sign to Belogordka |
Sign to Izyaslav |
Hotel where we stayed in Shepetovka. It was below Western standards. |
Sign to Gritsev |
Our driver Anatoly Pzonik and his mother Ludmilla, a resident of Gritsev
|
Lunch that Ludmilla prepared for us. |
Gate at the entrance to Jewish cemetery in Gritsev |
Typical gravestone at Gritsev Jewish cemetery. Only a few of the stones
remain. |
At the Gritsev Jewish cemetery. Many gravestones were toppled. |
Post WWII gravesite in Gritsev Jewish cemetery. |
Typical Gritsev home |
Taxi anyone? |
Well in Gritsev |
Our guide Yan at a pump |
Postoffice bldg in Gritsev. Probably post WWII. This is the site where
the Jews were rounded up in Aug 1941, kept for 3 days without food or water,
then marched 6 km to a mass killing site. |
Gritsev business center. Design on buildings is done with brickwork. |
Man with carriage in city center of Gritsev |
Private enterprise in Gritsev |
Distraught lady recounting the terror of August 1941 when the Jews were
rounded up in Gritsev. Our ancestors perished in this massacre. |
Lovely children to whom we had given American crayons. |
Peaceful unpaved path leading to the Mass grave outside of Gritsev. This
path was closed off at the highway. |
Mass grave, 6 km from Gritsev. Only 33 Jews escaped death in Aug 1941.
Ultimately, about 4,500 were killed here, including our ancestors |