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PHOTOS FROM BERDYCHIV. (Courtesy: flickr.com). Berdychiv. Memorial to Jews in Berdichev. Berdichev Jewish Cemetery. Berdichev Cemetery. Berdichev Cemetery, Ukraine Another painted Jewish grave . Berdichev Jewish Cemetery.
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PHOTOS FROMBERDYCHIV (Courtesy: flickr.com)
Berdichev Jewish CemeteryThis is an older Jewish grave in Berdichev, Ukraine, supposedly it is shaped like a foot so that when the spirits rise it will be easier.
Newer Jewish grave in Berdichev CemeteryThis is a more typical new Jewish-Soviet grave in Berdichev Ukraine. It became common to put photographs on the graves.
Berdichev Cemetery Graves shaped like feet so that when the bodies rise (religious lore) the feet can walk.....
Old Synagogue in Berdichev Ukraine, no longer in use In Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union there were many synagogues. In villages like Berdichev that were heavily populated with Jews there were often many synagogues. Many Jews who lived in places like Berdichev either perished in the war or moved to other bigger cities in the USSR. Their synagogues were often co-opted by the state and used for storage as I believe the case is with this synagogue
The outside of the Berdichev synagogue, you can see bullet pock marks on the bricks
Newer Jewish grave in Berdichev CemeteryThis is a more typical new Jewish-Soviet grave in Berdichev Ukraine. It became common to put photographs on the graves.
Berdichev Cemetery, Ukraine Tzedekah at a holy site of a buried hasidic rebbe
Woman in Berdichev Tells her Story This woman began to speak about her history in Berdichev and about how her family fled during the war to Kazakhstan. She sang Siliy Platochek and Ha Tikva.
Roman Catholic chapel in which the French novelist Honoré de Balzac married Ewelina Rzewuska Hanska, a wealthyPolish widow in 1850, after18-year courtship,in the town of Berdichev.
Berdichev (tomb of Rabbi Levinsohn in the old cemetery, nowadays a park)
Berdichev (tomb of Rabbi Levinsohn in the old cemetery, nowadays a park)
Berdichev (tomb of Rabbi Levinsohn in the old cemetery, nowadays a park)