A woman against a horizon, unseen. Berestechko, a village in Volhynia, today's Ukraine. Ancestries--the great battle fought there in 1651, when 100,000 Cossack troops rebelled againt Polish rule. Hussars and Tatars...
Dark stories from the last century's wars...
"A quiet town, nestled in a curve of the River Styr," as described by a more recent visitor, pictures of town sign, in distictive East Slavic script, a boy in a boat on a pond. Happy discovery of a family gravestone, inscribed with a Jewish name...
Sorting out the past...
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