סטרי

סטרי — פלאץ פון בית החיים

Stryi — the site of the Jewish cemetery

Site of the Jewish cemetery, corner of Korchaka and Zalizniaka streets, Stryi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

• THERE IS NOTHING TO ENTER. The cemetery was opened in the early seventeen hundreds and it is gone — taken down around the war and then built over under the Soviets. Blocks of flats stand on it now, at the crossing of Korchaka and Zalizniaka.
• A memorial sign marks the place, put up both for the cemetery and for the rabbonim who lay in it. That sign is the whole of what there is to stand at.
• The ruined synagogue in the town is a separate site and volunteers have worked on clearing it. If you are going to Stryi at all, that is the other thing to see.
• Stryi is on the road south from Lviv toward the Carpathians and is almost always passed through rather than travelled to.
• SURVEYED COORDINATES. The map point on this listing is the cemetery itself, measured on the ground by the ESJF survey — not a town centre. Where a kever is inside an ohel it will still need finding once you are through the gate, but the gate is now something you can navigate to.