AROUND THE WORLD

From: Chicago Jewish Star | Date: December 7, 2007| Author: Jordan, Michael J | Copyright information

ON A SWELTERING SUMMER DAY, THE researchers in Mogilev-Podolsky, in the Ukraine, fan out in this city's historical center, its walls lined with photos of local Jews who went through the Holocaust.

The visiting scholars from St. Petersburg aren't here to document a lost community, however. They have come to capture what remains of Jewish life in what expedition leader Valery Dymshits calls "the last Jewish city in the Soviet Union": Mogilev-Podolsky.

As recently as the early 1990...

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