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Berdychiv

Memorial to Jews in Berdichev

Berdichev Jewish Cemetery

Berdichev Cemetery

Berdichev Cemetery, Ukraine Another painted Jewish grave

Berdichev Jewish Cemetery

Berdichev Jewish Cemetery This 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 Cemetery This 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.....

Painted Jewish grave 

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  

Berdichev Synagogue

Berdichev Synagogue

The outside of the Berdichev synagogue, you can see bullet pock marks on the bricks 

Newer Jewish grave in Berdichev Cemetery This is a more typical new Jewish-Soviet grave in Berdichev Ukraine. It became common to put photographs on the graves. 

Berdichev Synagogue Bookshelf

Forbidden to speak during the prayers.....

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.

Carmelite Monastery

The Carmelite Monastery in Berdychiv

Carmelite Monastery

Fragment (of the Carmelite Monastery)

Berdichev (Roman Catholic Monastery)

Carmelite Monastery (seen from the river)

Berdichev's Catholic monastery

Roman Catholic chapel in which the French novelist Honoré de Balzac married  Ewelina Rzewuska Hanska, a wealthy Polish widow in 1850, after18-year courtship,in the town of Berdichev.

Бердичев - Berdichev

Gnylopiat River

House nearby the river

Gnylopiat River

Gnylopiat River

Medzhibezh (tomb of Baal Shem Tov)

Medzhibezh (tomb of Baal Shem Tov)

Medzhibezh (at the entrance of the Synagogue)

Medzhibezh (tomb of Baal Shem Tov)

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)

The Carmelite Monastery

The Berdichev beer

The Carmelite Monastery

Gnylopiat River

The Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish Cemetery

Berdychiv Synagogue ( Fantastic “Aharoyn ha-neyros” with sockets) “

Berdychiv, the Jewish cemetry. Figure on matzeve: floral ornament.

Berdychiv, the Jewish cemetry Berdychiv, the Jewish cemetry. Figure on matzeve: a floral ornament with a crown. 

Berdychiv, the Jewish cemetry. Figure on matzeve: a menorah

Berdychiv, the Jewish cemetry Berdychiv, the Jewish cemetry. The ohel settled upon the grave of Levi-Itzhak. This Ohel was built in 2007

Door of the Carmelite Monastery

The Carmelite Monastery

Berdychiv center with the first snow

St. Barbara’s Church in Berdychiv

Berdychiv, Taras Shevchenko park main entrance

Circus in Berdychiv

Old building of Culture in Berdychiv

Taras Schevchenko

St. Barbara Church, The churchyard

In the distance, the dome of the Orthodox Church

Fortification walls of Carmelite monastery in Berdychiv; along the fortified walls of the monastery leads ściezynka trodden a narrow lead straight to the river and the bridge over the River Hniłopiat.

The relief of Honore de Balzac in the church wall The relief of Honore de Balzac in the church wall. Here, in this church the famous French writer and Polish dutchess Ewelina Hanska got married in 1850.

Saint Barbara Church (catholic) Interior, during the mass

Saint Barbara Church (catholic)

A copy of the fundamentals of Our Lady of the miraculous image of Our Lady Berdyczowskiej (or otherwise the Snow) in the lower church sanctuary carmelite. The interior of the Lower Church. A copy of the original given by Pope John Paul II. The original was lost.

Carmelite monastery in Berdychiv. View from the southern side Carmelite monastery in Berdychiv. View from the southern side. General view. Fortified Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites of the seventeenth century, founded by Duke Janusz Tyszkiewicz.

Carmelite monastery in Berdyczów; view from the northern side

Hniłopiat River in the vicinity of the monastery

Grazing goats near the bridge next to the main route through the city level crossing

Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The main facade of the Upper Church. At the bottom of the stairs church chapel where the miraculous image is kept - a copy of the original given by Pope John Paul II. The upper part of facade of bas-relief depicting the likeness of the miraculous image of Our Lady of the Snows Our Lady Berdyczowskiej otherwise.

Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The main input. All the time in the repairs, and practically built from scratch.

Internal courtyard. All of the repairs.

Another view of the monastery

Carmelite monastery in Berdyczów; view from the northern side.