Travel: In 2012 a group of American descendants visited the site of Trochenbrod, its mass graves, and surrounding villages. They talked to elderly Ukrainians who who spent time in Trochenbrod as children; they learned about partisan fighters from Trochenbrod when they visited the nearby partisan museum; they left a “We Remember” marker at the site of Trochenbrod (first photo, left); they said kaddish at the site of the Trochenbrod’s mass graves (second photo, left); and much more. I organized this trip with the help of a local Ukrainian friend, Sergiy Omelchuk.
If you would like to visit the site of Trochenbrod, English-speaking Sergiy would be your perfect arranger, driver, and guide. To discuss a possible trip and the costs with him: shamanik@gmail.com.
For other or wider-ranging Jewish roots trips in Ukraine, or for archival research there, I recommend historian/
researcher/arranger/
guide/driver Alexander Dunai. I depended on Alex to help me during the first ten years of my visits to Trochenbrod:
aldunai@yahoo.com.