In July 2001, Sue and I traveled to the Western Ukraiane to the area where my Schattner and Schmerler ancestors lived. A detailed description of our trip can be found in my Ukraine travel journal. On this page are some photographs to accompany that report.
Sign upon entering the village of Kuty - ancestral home of the
Schattner
Family.
View of the Carpathian foothills from outside Kuty
Searching for gravestones in Solotvina cemetery - state of
disrepair is
typical of the Jewish cemeteries we saw.
Gravestone of Sara Schmerler in Solotvina cemetery.This writing on
this gravestone is very hard to read at this point. It appears to
say that Sara Schmerler was the wife of Yosef Schmerler.
Gravestone of Menachim Chaim Schmerler in Solotvina
cemetery.
Again the tombstone writing is mostly destroyed, but the tombstone
appears to say that Menachim Chaim Schmerler was the son of Moshe.
(More details on family gravestones located can be found in the trip report.)
Buildings
that originally housed the Stanislav Yeshiva. The principal
of
the
Yeshiva was Jacob Schattner (photo on Schattner
genealogy
page).
Stanislav Synagogue
Official Czernowitz "Addressbook" of 1913 showing listings of 4
Schattners
including my grandfather Schulim Schattner. Complete
listings of
Schattners and Schmerlers found in the 1913 and 1915 Czernowitz
Addressbooks
is given in the appendix to the
trip
report.
Site of Vishnitz Mikvah said to have been used by the Baal Shem
Tov.
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