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Dolina, Ukraine

A Cyber-Memorial to its pre-WWII Jewish Community
Photographs - Shadows of the Past

Old Jewish Cemetery
Synagogue Remains

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Write Author  Page Modified: 01/31/01 06:41 PM

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Visit the Previous Photo to see where we found this object. I'd assumed it was a tombstone, but....

Within 20 minutes after this Dolina web site was linked from the ShtetLinks Home Page, I received an email from a JewishGen'er  out there who had stumbled accross the site while researching his grandfather's ancestry (from the nearby town of Dibeva). He had read that I had been unsuccesful in searching for any remains of the Dolina synagogue.  Read on.....

 

The JewishGen'er, who is a Yeshiva student, wrote, "Just one small correction : the photo on which you click to get a better view of the 'tombstone' is actually not a tombstone. The Hebrew writing is the first words of the first five of the Ten Commandments. It is very common to have two tablets, looking exactly like the one in your picture, above the Aron Kodesh (Holy Ark) in a synagogue - symbolizing the Two Tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written (five commandments on one and five on the
other). To the best of my knowledge, the Ten Commandments were never placed in a cemetery. My guess is that this 'tablet' was taken from the synagogue, probably during the Holocaust, and left out in the Jewish cemetery. If  I'm correct, you now have evidence of the synagogue!"