Project Contributors

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At Lviv Polytechnic. Photos © RJH.

On this page we gratefully acknowledge the many people and institutions who generously contributed their knowledge, data, skills, advice, and other valuable support to the guide and the related resources on this website:

Center for Urban History of East Central Europe: Dr. Sofia Dyak, Dr. Iryna Matsevko, Dr. Natalia Mysak

Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Restoration of Architecture and Artistic Heritage: Sc.D. Prof. Mykola Bevz, Dr. Oleh Rybchynskiy, Dr. Mariana Kaplinska

ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative: Yana Yanover, Alexander Bessarab, Hryhoriy Arshynov, Kateryna Malakhova, Yakiv Yakovenko, Philip Carmel

Yahad – In Unum: Father Patrick Desbois, Andrej Umansky, Emmanuel Cortey, Patrice Bensimon, Kateryna Duzenko, Michał Chojak

With several key advisors. Photos © RJH.

Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Dr. Sergey Kravtsov, Dr. Boris Khaimovich, Dr. Vladimir Levin

Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH): Marla Raucher Osborn, Jay Osborn

Lviv Volunteer Center (LVC): Alexander Nazar, Arie Lisakoff, Mariia Estrina, Slava Durach, Ivan Nazar

Law Craft Legal Services & Consulting: Vitaliy Nadashkevych, Bohdan Zdanevych, Dmytro Hural

CIES, Fulbright Ukraine, plus Fulbright scholars and alumni: Marta Kolomayets, Inna Barysh, Lauren Smith, Dr. Rachel Stevens and Dr. Jack Wright, Ryan Wolfe, and many more

With teams of volunteers from Ukraine, the US, and Poland at Jewish cemeteries in Rohatyn and Kalush. Photos © RJH.

The Matzevah Foundation: Dr. Steven D. Reece, Przemek Panasiuk, Rachel McRae

Stowarzyszenie Magurycz: Szymon Modrzejewski, Filip Modrzejewski, Olga Solarz

Peace Corps Ukraine and its volunteers: Andrés Rodriguez, Jonathan Pamel, Patty Deignan, Kirsten Dyck, Carson Holstein, Abram Lyons, Leslie Nolan, John Lillegard, and many, many more

Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society: Laurence S. Kirsch, Susan Wolf Turnbull, Bruce H. Turnbull

Rohatyn Shtetl Research Group and Rohatyn Jewish descendants: Dr. Alex Feller, Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz

Nadworna Shtetl Research Group: Dr. Steven Turner

With the LVC and other volunteers in Lviv. Photos © RJH.

Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University: Prof. Caroline Sturdy Colls, Assoc. Prof. Kevin Colls, William Mitchell, Czelsie Weston, Daria Cherkaska, Dante Abate, Marina Faka, Alex Haycock

Jewish Heritage Europe: Ruth Ellen Gruber, Michele Migliori

Gesher Galicia: Dr. Tony Kahane, Dr. Andrew Zalewski, Pamela Weisberger z”l

Jewish Galicia & Bukovina: Dr. Ilie Lurie

Jewish Community of Ivano-Frankivsk: Rabbi Moshe Leib Kolesnyk

Samuel Gruber: Samuel D. Gruber

Faina Petryakova Scientific Center for Judaica and Jewish Art: Meylakh Sheykhet

Geder Avos: Rabbi Moses J. Rubin

Jewish Epitaphs and the Bialystok Cemetery Restoration Project: Dr. Heidi M. Szpek, Josh Degen, Amy Degen

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ): Michael Engel, Iris Gleichmann

With city officials and staff at a Jewish mass grave site. Photo © RJH.

Western Ukraine region city officials: Andriy Moskalenko (Lviv), Mykola Shynkar (Rohatyn), Olga Blaga-Maletska (Rohatyn), Halyna Bohun (Rohatyn), Roman Yasinskiy (Rohatyn), Serhiy Nasalyk (Rohatyn), Vasyl Myts (Rohatyn), Ihor Hrynkiv (Zolochiv), Arthur Yefremov (Kalush), Volodomyr Hrynishak (Nadvirna)

Independent researchers, architects, journalists, artists, activists, historians, translators, librarians, etc.: Andrij Bojarov, Vasyl Yuzyshyn, Christian Herrmann, Alex Denysenko, Ihor Klishch, Witold Wrzosiński, Michał Piasek, Edgar Hauster, Tetyana Sadovska, Dr. Lada Moskalets, Dr. Tomasz Jankowski, Anna Zolotnyuk, Iryna Nebesna, Nataliya Kurishko, Svitlana Bregman, Tetiana Fedoriv, Viktor Susak, Ivan Yurchenko, Volodymyr Kogut, Glenn Kurtz, Thomas Traber, Douglas Hykle, Lenka Vojtová, Mykhailo Vorobets, Vitaly Shkurko, Natalie and Alex Dunai, Olga Verbiana, Oksana Huzynets-Mudryk, Sonia Engström and Gustav Söderström, Lidiya Zhidachivska, Irina Shikhova, and many more

With colleagues and knowledgeable local people. Photos © RJH.