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Bolekhiv Jewish Cemetery, the Glossary

The Bolekhiv Jewish Cemetery is located on a hill near Mandryka St.^[1]

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Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine

Arabesque

The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements.

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Bolekhiv

Bolekhiv (Болехів; Bolechów; באָלעכאָוו) is a city in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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Bukovina

BukovinaBukowina or Buchenland; Bukovina; Bukowina; Bucovina; Bukovyna; see also other languages.

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David L. Wolper

David Lloyd Wolper (January 11, 1928 – August 10, 2010) was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, and North and South, and the theatrically-released films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and L.A. Confidential.

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Epitaph

An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person.

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Galicia (Eastern Europe)

Galicia (. Collins English Dictionary Galicja,; translit,; Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Holocaust in Bolekhiv

During the Holocaust, the Jewish population of over 3000 in Bolekhiv (Yiddish: Bolechov, בולוחוב or באלעכוב, Polish: Bolechów) in 1940, with additional thousands of Jews brought in from the surrounding villages and towns in 1941 and 1942, was mostly annihilated, brutally, by the Germans with local Ukrainian collaborators.

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Ivano-Frankivsk

Ivano-Frankivsk (Івано-Франківськ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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Oblasts of Ukraine

An oblast (oblast) in Ukraine, sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of the country.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Province

A province is an administrative division within a country or state.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ukrainian language

Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolekhiv_Jewish_Cemetery