Town of Sudova Vyshnya, Lviv region: Jewish history, heritage
I. Sudova Vyshnya. Research and available materials.
Rabbis and other outstanding personalities of the Jewish community of Sudova Vyshnya, known to us (according to information obtained from the archive research conducted in DALO (State Archive of Lviv Region) in Lviv and information kindly presented to the organization by Mr. Roman Voytsitskyy of Sudova Vyshnya, a student of local history.
Available are short information data on the known rabbis, other religious personalities of the town, archive copies of their seals.
Should you need to review/copy these materials (I-VI) please apply to the Scientific Center – Director Mr. Meylakh Sheykhet or historian Andriy Fylypiv providing the reason for such application. Copying materials shall be permitted individually in each case.
II. Original of the Charter of "Sudova Vyshnya Jewish Community”, late 19thcentury.
The Charter contains 15 articles divided into paragraphs clearly describing the structure, objectives and other essential principles of the community. The archive copies of a part of the Charter contain signatures of the known personalities of the town, including that of the rabbi Samuel (Samuil) Babad, one of the representatives of the famous Chasidic dynasty of the Babads.
III. Jewish cemetery in Sudova Vyshnya on the cadastre map of the 19th century is also indicated in the registers of land owners of the 19th century. Copies of both documents are available.
IV. "Photographic history of Sudova Vyshnya in old photographs (from personal and state archives):
Available materials:
Jews of Sudova Vyshnya (2 photographs)
Mother and father of Ms. Genia Meller-Goldman
Bruno Schultz, 1934 (father Bruno – Jacub – native of Sudova Vyshnya)
Sudova Vyshnya market. 2 synagogues can be seen in the background
"Greetings from Sudova Vyshnya” – Market and Lvivska street on the postcard of the 20th century. In the photograph - a building with the tower where there used to be the Reformist synagogue of the town
"Greetings from Sudova Vyshnya”. A postcard of the 20thcentury with the main buildings of the town. Both postcards published by Samuel Degen.
V. Rachel (Genia) Meller-Goldman, native of Sudova Vyshnya, and her patronage, brief history of her family.
Mr. Roman Voytsitskyy also told the story of the now late Rachel (Genia) Meller-Goldman (died in 2013), a daughter of the Jewish family from Sudova Vyshnya, who visited the town a number of times. She helped to restore the tower clock of the town hall and install the memorial plaque in memory of the town’s Jews. There is also a short description of her family and photographs with Ms. Rachel (Genia) Meller-Goldman:
Mr. Roman Voytsitskyy, town mayor of Sudova Vyshnya with Mr. R. Schust, tour guide and Jewish guests of the town
Photograph presented by Ms. Genia Meller-Goldman. In the photograph: family of Rachel (Genia) Meller
Mr. Roman Voytsitskyy with Ms. Rachel (Genia) in London (on invitation of Genia)
Mr. Roman Voytsitskyy with Ms. Rachel in Yavoriv (her mother perished in the ghetto, and father perished in Yanovskyy concentration camp)
Ms. Rachel (Genia) by the monument in the forest between Sambir and Drogobych (many Jews perished here)
Mr. Roman Voytsitskyy with Ms. Rachel (Genia) in Drogobych by the memorial plaque dedicated to Bruno Schultz (see below)
Memorial plaque dedicated to Bruno Schultz in Drogobych
Mr. Roman Voytsitskyy with Ms. Rachel (Genia) and Alfred Schrasher - Drogobych-Morshyn
Unveiling the memorial plaque dedicated to Jews in Sudova Vyshnya. Photographic report:
Installation of the plaque (2 photographs)
Installed plaque.
Before unveiling
Engravers
Unveiling the plaque. Ms. Rachel (Genia) Meller, Mr. Meylakh Sheykhet (2 photographs)
VI. Photofixation of "Jewish places" in Sudova Vyshnya with description of the buildings.
I. "Jewish places in Sudova Vyshnya
01 Entrance to the reformist synagogue
02 Entrance to the synagogue "Under the tower." The building of the late 19th century. Now – bricked-up part of the entrance to the synagogue
03 Memorial plaque dedicated to the Jewish community in the main square of Sudova Vyshnya. Produced by engravers of Lviv.
04 House consisting of two parts with the part where the Rabbi of Sudova Vyshnya lived (according to the document-contract the owners of the rest of the house were Gorowitz and his wife) (to the left from the air conditioner to the end).
05 Former Jewish house
06 A former Jewish house in Rynok, property of the Freilichs family: Schprung and Wallach.
07 View from the territory of the former synagogue. Almost next to the Schlaf’s house, on the right side, there used to be the synagogue built in the late 19thcentury.
08 View on the other (higher) synagogue.
09 View on the former mikvah
10 Territory of the former Jewish mikvah. Junk on the present day territory.
11 View of the former bath (mikvah). Right here used to be a very old ritual bath (mikvah).
12 A part of the territory of the mikvah. Garages on the present day territory.
13 A former Jewish house in Rynok.
14 A former Jewish house in Rynok.
15 Jewish schools, "Yeshiva".
16 A plaque dedicated to installation of the clock on the Town Hall.
17 A Jewish house. Pharmacist Mauer rented the 2nd floor as an apartment, the left side as a confectionery.
18 A former Jewish house.
II. Jewish cemetery in Sudova Vyshnya
01 Beginning of the cemetery. View from south-east (in the middle – building of the former «Farming machines» office built in the late 1950’s, the cemetery’s beginning was on the left side of the building).
02 Territory of the cemetery from west to east.
03 North-west. «Farming machines» office building in the place of kirkut (cemetery) .
04 Extreme west, probably near the old chapel on the territory.
To the left – building for pre-burial rites where the Kozaks family lived. They were the grave diggers.
05 View of the cemetery from north-west. In the end of the 19th century an undamaged Matzeva (tombstone) was excavated in this place, nobody knows what had happened to it. It was probably taken to Lviv.
06 The building’s site - extreme NW boundary.
immediately behind the white building of waste water treatment facility was the end of kirkut cemetery). People remember that the cemetery was very overgrown with vegetation, almost like a forest.
07 Along the fence - the extreme western boundary.
08 View of the cemetery; along the fence - extreme south-western boundary.
09 View from east to west.
10 View of the southern boundary of the cemetery. Hangar since the beginning of the 21st century, outside the cemetery (behind the eastern boundary).
11 Extreme western boundary on the territory of buildings, probably, a chapel. The kirkut (cemetery) was fenced off from the street by a low brick fence, on the other 3 sides – from reminiscences – by the rows of trees destroyed now.
12 View of extreme western boundary of the cemetery. Cemetery located along the street, right up to the mill. Very old, over 400 years. They buried deceased Jews here brought from the villages.
13 Extreme south-western boundary. On the right sided of the office there used to be a field road in the old times. The cemetery began from the street right up to the mill, there was a large wooden cross at the crossroad.
14 More southerly of the last boundary.
15 View from the south to the western part of the cemetery.
Photographs that are missing here are be added separately to this photo gallery.
All these materials were prepared by: Andriy Fylypiv, historian of F. S. Petryakova Scientific Center of Judaica and Jewish Art, Representation of the American Union of Councils for the Jews in the former Soviet Union.
Should you need to review/copy these materials (I-VI) please apply to the Scientific Center – Director Mr. Meylakh Sheykhet or historian Andriy Fylypiv providing the reason for such application. Copying materials shall be permitted individually in each case.
