זלאטשוב

זלאָטשאָוו — ציון רבי אברהם חיים, בעל אורח לחיים

Zolochiv — Kever of Reb Avraham Chaim, the Orach LaChaim

The site of the town's two former Jewish cemeteries, 86 metres apart, Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine — no standing matzevah; see the notes

• Both of Zolochiv's Jewish cemeteries were destroyed, and the ohel the Yizkor book describes over his grave no longer exists. The old cemetery, in use from the 17th century, was demolished and built over — a car park and a filling station now stand on the ground — and the new cemetery was demolished in the 1960s, fenced in the early 2000s and marked only with a memorial. There is no standing, identified matzevah for the Orach LaChaim today.
• Do not confuse this tzaddik with Reb Yechiel Michel, the Maggid of Zloczow, who died in 1781 and is buried in Yampil, not here. Travelers regularly drive to Zolochiv expecting the Maggid and find nothing of his; if the Maggid is who your group wants, you need Yampil.
• Also make sure of the town: there is a second Zolochiv in Kharkiv Oblast, hundreds of kilometres east. You want Zolochiv in Lviv Oblast, about 60 km east of Lviv.
• If you still want to daven at the site, ask the Lviv Jewish community to point out which ground is which and confirm the exact spot locally before you go.
• SURVEYED COORDINATES, AND THE TOWN'S TWO GROUNDS ARE ALL BUT THE SAME PLACE. ESJF surveyed an old and a new Jewish cemetery here and measured them 86 metres apart, so the map point on this listing serves for both. Old: 49.80903, 24.89010. New: 49.80828, 24.89039.