Participants of ROOTKA tour agency which specialize in Jewish heritage tours in Eastern Europe sit amid old headstones at the abandoned Jewish cemetery containing almost 3000 tombstones in the suburbs of Bolekhiv a regional city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine which was once home to a large Jewish community. During the Holocaust, the Jewish community was annihilated, brutally, by the Germans with local Ukrainian collaborators.

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Participants of ROOTKA a Polish tour agency which specialize in tailor-made tours related to Jewish heritage sites in Eastern Europe having a lecture by Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern a Jewish historian amid old headstones at the abandoned Jewish cemetery containing almost 3000 tombstones in the suburbs of Bolekhiv a regional city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine which was once home to a large Jewish community. During the Holocaust, the Jewish community was annihilated, brutally, by the Germans with local Ukrainian collaborators. Only 48 of Bolekhiv's Jews were known to have survived the war.

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