American Couple from California Aims to Preserve the Remnants of a Ukraine Shetl in Rohatyn
When Marla and Jay Osborn began to dig into their family roots and search for traces of Jewish history in the small Ukrainian town of Rohatyn, they had no idea that the people of the town had already done much of the digging themselves–literally.
On their second visit to Rohatyn in 2011, town historian and cemetery caretaker Mykhailo Vorobets showed them a broken Jewish headstone that had turned up beyond the cemetery. Others had been found in flower beds and building foundations. Turning to the Osborns, Mykhailo asked, “Now what?”