Clay in My Boots: A Romp Through My Genealogical Past

https://www.facebook.com/528947502/posts/10155711210797503/ A walk along the Apascia River, Birzai, Lithuania (time lapse)

Remember Diana, the guide who rocks? Well she got us into the Jewish Community Center, and helped make some contacts for Michael’s continuing research.  They were preparing for Rosh Hashana. Imagine. In Ukraine 🇺🇦. So off to the Archives for about 3 hours of research (mostly filling out forms and waiting). We had to leave for their lunch break and go back at 2 since they were closing early!! Maybe they’ll find something in the final request. Not hopeful, but at least Michael has Ida and Sergei who don’t speak English.  Quick stop at the massacre site behind the sugar factory (prior post), and back for our last     dinner in Lviv. What a meal!! Herring app.  Beetroot salad app.  Michael had gefilte fish for dinner.  Diana and each had veal with fois gras.  We said our goodbyes to Diana, and off to get some sleep before our 6:30 am flight to Lviv!! Carol

We really did need a day to chill without all the depressing sites. So we had a good lunch and then off to a castle.  And a wedding.  We found an intact synagogue in use as a gym.  Then off to visit the home of 

Ok. Out of order. Right now, I’m in Lithuania trying to get out of Ukraine.  On the way to Lutsk, we stopped at the Tunnel of Love. Great place to be with my guide and my brother since Diana insisted we make a love wish. I guess it’ll wait til I get home, Metin!!  So why is a rail line to a former Soviet facility hidden by trees considered the Tunnel of Love?  I guess you’ll have to ask all the Asian tourists.  Oh yeah. Michael just reminded me of the massacre site in the woods there!

Pumpenai - Ancestral Home of 11 GG Parents (1720-1860) 850 citizens now. Not a big shift in 300 years Most of the town was destroyed by the Nazis  Jewish Market house 1910 Mill build by Jewish families Surprisingly the cemetery has some surviving headstones. I hope to get readable ones translated. http://clayinmyboots.blogspot.com/2018/05/pumpenai-lithuania-khait-paliukar-zaidel.html?m=1

Yudel Khait and Asna Kreiger Khiat emigrated from Pasvalys Cemetary 3 Jewish Houses, likely Shops Massacre Sites