These photos were contributed by Francine Shapiro. Click on each thumbnail for a larger version.

This is the mill at Podhajce, September 2001. The original owner doesn't remember it looking like this. I think it might have been enlarged or rebuilt after the Second World War.  The workers said that the Russians gave the owner dynamite when they retreated, and told him to blow it up. He said, "What will the Ukrainians have to eat?" Then he threw the dynamite into the mill pond, and fled to the east with his family. His wife, now very old, lives in Yavne, and his daughter and family owns a large used book store in downtown Jerusalem.   There is still a Podhajce memorial once a year in the spring somewhere in the Tel Aviv area.

The workers in the mill. Above we have the real workers, middle aged, pot-bellied fellows.

On the other side we have the ideal, youthful, muscled heroic Soviet worker.

The man is the blue shirt is Haim Shapiro.

Prior to the Holocaust, the mill belonged to Hillel Erde.  His wife was Salka (Bitterman) Erde.

This is the Podhajce mill pond.