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Synagogue in Velyki Mosty (Great Bridges / מוסט רבתי), Ukraine
The synagogue is a brick building and consists of the main hall and a narrower and lower narthex. To the north of the synagogue is a one-storied building that is thought to have been the Jewish bath-house (Mikveh).
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Destroyed cultural monuments of the Holoby area in the Kovel region, requiring restoration (modern look):
1. The estate of the Wilga family, owners Holoby from the second half of the 18th century. 2. The Church of the Archangel Michael was built in the first quarter of the 18th century. by the gentry of Eruzalski today reminds of the multi-confessional past Holoby
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Church of St. Wenceslas in Kupichev, Volyn
Catholic Church of the Czech community, now inactive. Built in 1907-1911, in 1912 it opened its doors to parishioners. Brick was bought for construction by the Pole Sigmund Khmelevsky, a landowner from the village of Nyry. Waclaw Pomorski аinancially supported the construction. The parish was founded in 1928, separated from the Kisielin parish, and had […]
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Old Orthodox Church in the village of Kolodezhe, Volyn
During the time of the Second Polish Republic, the Polish Orthodox Church (in the left wing) and a school (in the right wing) operated simultaneously in this building Services have not been held in the church for about 20 years. A new church was built nearby Near the church there is a cemetery where a […]
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Old Polish cemetery in the village of Nesvich, Volyn
A part of the graves are well preserved. According to the words of the locals, the Roman Catholic church stood at the crossroads, where this chapel is now erected.
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Request of Ukrainian emigrants to send them to Argentina due to the material hardship, 1938
The letter is stored in the documents of the Emigration Office, Department in Równe Ukrainians who went to Argentina could wait a long time to be sent by ship from Poland. Here is a letter from the head of the family asking to send them to Argentina as soon as possible, as they only have […]
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Remains of the church and Polish cemetery in Druzhkopil, Volyn region, Ukraine
Abandoned Polish cemetery and the place the ruins of a church of the town of Druzhkopil, which does not exist today. There remain single graves on which candles are rarely lit. The metrical books of this church partially survived, they are stored in Lutsk and Lublin.
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“I miss Rivne and live in hope” – a letter from a Ukrainian emigrant from Argentina, 1936.
A letter home, written by a Ukrainian who just arrived to Argentina by a ship, from Polish Gdynia
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The place of the destroyed Roman-Catholic church. Skirche, Volyn
At this place there were a church and there was a Polish cemetery. Now there are several graves preserved, on some of them you can even read the names.
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A soldier from Volhynia in the tsarist army, 1910
The Royal Borodino Regiment, the elite army. Photo of 1910