Dolyna


Jewish Cemetery in Dolyna, 2019

Ohel of Rabbi Moshe ben Dan Shoham in the Jewish Cemetery, 2019	In the ohel	Second ohel in the cemetery, without name

Sources:
- Virtual Shtetl. Dolyna

Photo:
- Vladimir Levin, Jewish Galicia and Bukovina N.P.O. Published by Center for Jewish art
- Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. Dolyna Jewish Cemetery

Kalush district, Ivano-Frankivsk region

Ivano-Frankivsk region - list of settlements and location of objects

Dolyna, 2023

The first Jewish families started to settle in Dolyna in the 16th century. The profitable salt trade attracted new settlers to the town and resulted in the rapid growth of the Jewish community. The town’s owners protected the local Jewish population but Jewish merchants constituted competition for the burghers. The earliest documents regarding the community date back to the 17th century.

In the 19th century, the town became an important centre of Hasidism, partially thanks to the activities of Rabbi Issachar Berisz Eichenstein (d. 1886), son of Tzaddik Yitzchak Icchak Eichenstein from Zhydachiv.

At the end of the 19th century, immigration to the United States increased in the aftermath of the economic crisis.

The town suffered major damage during WWI. In the first phase of the conflict, the Austrian troops withdrew and the front was located near the town. Dolyna was plundered and largely destroyed under heavy fire.

In October 1914, Russian troops captured the town. Russian privates tormented the local Jews. The number of Jews in the town fell from 2,654 in 1900 to 2,014 in 1921.

During World War II, Dolyna was occupied first by the Soviets (September 1939 – June 1941), then the Hungarians (from 2 July 1941), and eventually by Germans, who ordered to establish the Judenrat and put all Jews under the regime of a labour camp.

At the end of July 1942, nearly 3,000 Jews were murdered by the Germans and buried in mass graves dug up at the local cemetery.
A group of ca. 50 Jews joined a partisan unit, but only five of them survived.


Synagogue in Dolyna, 1999. It was built in 1925	Synagogue in Dolyna, 2009	In 1993, it was rebuilt under a Protestant prayer house. Sheptytskoho street, 32