Mass grave monuments in Ukraine honor Holocaust dead, reopen chapter of local history
Ludvika Sarah Leah Schein, who survived the Holocaust, hadn’t been to her hometown in 70 years. But she still vividly remembers the day Germans came to Rava-Ruska.
“We ran immediately into the forest,” Schein said, explaining how she and her two sisters narrowly escaped the Germans before a gentile family took them in. “Bullets were flying at us from all directions. It was a miracle we were not killed.”
Schein, who now lives in San Francisco and whose parents and brothers were killed by the Nazis, attended a ceremony unveiling monuments to murdered Ukrainian Jews and giving family members a place to visit and pay their respects seven decades later.
