Talk:Rava-Ruska

I would like to know if this city was part of Poland before the 2nd world war. If yes, how was transferred to Russia ?

My Grandfather is buried there.

I would like to contact someone in Rava Ruska —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.205.201.11 (talk) 13:02, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Shoa

Surprisingly, nobody has sought to remark on the significance of this town to the Holocaust. Fr. Patrick Desbois in his memoir, "Porteur des mémoires" describes his visit to the town in 2002 to revisit his grandfather's misery there, and to see what his grandfather obliquely referred to as the fate of the "others" -- meaning, as Desbois found out, the Jews. (Chapt. 5, pp. 44-63). What he found out was that the city authorities lie: they say there are no traces of the original concentration camp, only a memorial stone. But the camp and its unterlagern were used up to the present, first Soviet prisoners, then for French prisoners (from 13 April 1942), then for German prisoners after the War, and then as a Soviet and finally a Ukrainian caserne.

"How can one make disappear from the sight of old deportees returned to the places of their internment 45 hectares?" Desbois asks (p. 47).

Andygx (talk) 16:36, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]