Ostropol1989
1 Approaching Ostropol
2 Along the Sluch River on the road from Starokonstontinov
3 Approaching Ostropol
4 Stary Ostropolya
5 Bridge into town with the "high hill" on the left
6 Under the bridge, with the main store just the other side
7 You can see the hill across the river
8 On the banks of the river where my Aunt told me stories about sitting at night
9 at the side of the river
10 A bit down river with Ostropol on the right
11 The chickens of Ostropol
12 Main park in the center of Ostropol
13 The only store in town in 1989
14 City Hall
15 Staro Ostropolska sign at the city hall
16 The vacant lot on the right is where the Synogogue once stood
17 An old man who told me he remember the Jews of Ostropol and especially a family named Shuster....In the back ground is the main street
18 The only evidence I could find of the old town of Ostropol, the cobblestones. Everything else was destroyed in the war
19 On these cobblestones.....
20 Typical street in Ostropol
21 Main park in the center of town
22 Memorial to the war dead of Ostropol
23 An English teacher in town with whom I made friends. He was my exact age.....
24 Children outside the school of Ostropol
25 A plague to V. Volodarsky, (Moisei Markovich Goldstein) the hero of the revolution from Ostropol inside the school.
26 The school chidren to whom I gave a talk on our family roots in Ostropol
27 Heros of Ostropol posted in the school.
28 Pointing the way to the Jewish Cemetary.
29 Typical street in Ostropol
30 Bela Zelensky was a tank commander in WW 2. He was the only Jewish woman living in Ostropol
31 On the outskirts of Ostropol near the old Jewish cemetery
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35 Old Jewish Cemetary
36 Old Jewish Cemetary
37 Old Jewish Cemetary
38 Old Jewish Cemetary
39 Old Jewish Cemetary
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41 Old Jewish Cemetary
42 Old Jewish cemetary
43 Old Jewish Cemetary
44 Old Jewish Cemetary
45 Old Jewish Cemetary
46 New Ostropol Jewish Cemetary with Polonski house in the background
47 Anatoly Polonski, the only Jewish man left in Ostropol. He had been at school futher east during the facist invasion. When he returned there was no one left.
48 Polonsky with the cemtery that he cared for
49 Headstone with the letters that Polonski painted "so people didnt forget"
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51 Polonsky's Ostropol Cemetary with a bench he had made so that "people could sit and rest"
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53 More headstones in the Ostropol Jewish Cemetary that Polonski cared for
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61 Katarina Polonsky, the wife of Anatoly as she wraps seeds from her garden for me to take back to distribute at the Echenberg Reunion in Canada.
62 Dean with Anatoly and Katarina stadomg om tjeor garden. The new Jewish Cemetery that he cared for can be seen in upper right.
63 Katarina preparing foods for winter.
64 Polonsky and me in the Cemetery he preserved
65 Anatoly and Katarina Polonsky of Ostropol in front of their house when I first met them.
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69 Polonsky and his daughter Valya
70 Katarina, Valya and Anatoly Polonsky
