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height:75pt'> <v:imagedata src="/images/shtetlogo.jpg" o:title="shtetlogo"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=302 height=100 src="/images/shtetlogo.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1028"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoCaption align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#993366;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>This site is hosted by JewishGen, Inc. and part of the ShtetLinks Project<span style='color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:Arial; color:#993366'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:24.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Stropkov, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Slovak</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Republic</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:Arial; color:#993366'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1029" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:63pt;height:73.5pt'> <v:imagedata src="image007.gif" o:title="Stropk1"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=84 height=98 src="image007.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1029"><![endif]></span></b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Visit Stropkov, cSixty Years Later<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt; font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><br style='mso-special-character: line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'>Getting There</span></b><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>When to visit? Spring&nbsp; and fall are probably the best times,&nbsp; especially if one plans to visit cemeteries because graves&nbsp; are covered with heavy vegetation in the summer and snowed-under in the winter.</span><span style='font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>Stropkov is accessible from&nbsp; <st1:City w:st="on">Budapest</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on">Vienna</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on">Bratislava</st1:City>, or <st1:City w:st="on">Prague</st1:City> by air (to <st1:City w:st="on">Kosice</st1:City>), train (to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Kosice</st1:City></st1:place>, Medzilaborce, or Bardejov),&nbsp; private car, or bus.&nbsp; While there is one small hotel in the town, visitors may prefer more modern accomodations in larger Presov, Bardejov, or <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kosice</st1:place></st1:City>.&nbsp; From these nearby towns, it is possible to hire a car and driver for the day. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>Perhaps a better alternative is to contact&nbsp; Harry Weinberger,&nbsp; a Stropkov Holocaust survivor who lives&nbsp; in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Kosice</st1:City></st1:place>.&nbsp; He often accompanies tourists and survivors &quot;home&quot;, pointing out the sights in your choice of language-- German, Russian, Slovakian, Hungarian, or Yiddish. (For information on reaching&nbsp; Mr. Weinberger, contact the webmaster.)</span><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'>What to See<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>Stropkov today is far different from <a href="http://www.stropkov.sk/main.php?category_id=496&amp;pk_gallery=1&amp;galleryPage=1">Stropkov of old</a>.&nbsp;The&nbsp; Jewish stores that once lined&nbsp; the main street are gone, replaced by&nbsp; supermarkets and row-stores. There are no Jews & the <i>Rebbe's</i> house near the brook,&nbsp; the <i>shul</i>, the&nbsp; <i>beismedrish</i>, the <i>mikveh</i> ...all&nbsp; gone....only&nbsp; the two Jewish cemeteries remain--mute memorials&nbsp; to a vanished community.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span style='color:#330033'><a href="http://www.unipo.sk/SARIS/stropkoa.htm"></a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>For the adventuresome, take a peek at Stropkov today (in Slovakian)</span><span style='font-family:Arial'> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span style='color:#330033'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>Start your visit by requesting a <a href="http://www.stropkov.sk/resources/File/mapa/mapa%20mesta.pdf">Stropkov town map</a> at the&nbsp;Town Hall, located at 38-2 Hlavna Ulica (<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Main Street</st1:address></st1:Street>)--and b<i>e </i>sure<i> to ask for directions to both the Tisinec and Stropkov cemeteries! Many who have gone before you have overlooked the Tisinec cemetery, to their regret!</i></span><span style='font-family:Arial'> <span style='color:#330033'>With a little luck, the city architect himself will offer to take you on a walking tour.</span><b><span style='color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'>Tisinec Jewish Cemetery (c1650-1892)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:Arial; color:#993366'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1030" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:201.75pt;height:135pt'> <v:imagedata src="image005.jpg" o:title="Tisinec Cemetery"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=269 height=180 src="image005.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1030"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial'>In tiny Tisinec, four kilometers north of Stropkov, locate the Prusec family, caretakers and keyholders of the cemetery gate. Ask them to accompany you--and don't forget to leave a tip. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><a name="Bear_left"></a><span style='font-family:Arial'>To proceed on your own: at the Tisinec crossroads, turn right, then immediately bear left.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Follow the <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>two-rut overgrown tractor path, crossing a small bridge, then heading out into the fields. After a while, just past the water tower, <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>you will notice a&nbsp; large overgrown area to your left, markedly different from the flat, furrowed fields&nbsp; around it.&nbsp; This is the cemetery-- <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>returning to nature.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>A single building stands--a tiny mausoleum, or &quot;tent&quot;, protecting &nbsp; the grave of&nbsp; <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><a href="RabbisStropkov5.htm">Rav Chaim Yosef Gottlieb. </a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The grave of Rabbi Shlomo Baruch Tannenbaum <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>is also here. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Most of the ancient<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>tombstones have toppled and are illegible. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'>Stropkov Jewish Cemetery </span></b><b><span style='font-family:Arial'>(1892-1942)<span style='color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:Arial; color:#993366'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1031" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:199.5pt;height:128.25pt'> <v:imagedata src="image007.jpg" o:title="Stropkov cemetery"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=266 height=171 src="image007.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1031"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial'>This <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>cemetery, now <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>enveloped by <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Stropkov s residential area, is the final resting place of some<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>600 Jews.&nbsp; <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Many of its tombstones, flaked and worn with time, are illegible.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Others, though readable, show <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>first names, dates,&nbsp; and fathers names but no surnames.&nbsp; A single &quot;tent&quot; stands, guarding the grave of the  Zborover Ruv , <a href="RabbisStropkov5.htm">Rabbi Yitzhak Hersh Amsel</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Neither&nbsp; maps nor&nbsp;burial lists <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>have&nbsp; been found for either<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>cemetery.&nbsp;But <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>death certificates.&nbsp; available through&nbsp; the <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Stropkov and/or Presov Archives, do note burial <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>places.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>The Stropkov Archives is located&nbsp; in&nbsp; the town square, adjoining the old castle and the Catholic church.&nbsp; Here&nbsp; you will find&nbsp; birth, marriage, and death records of local residents&nbsp; dating&nbsp; from c1898 through the present.&nbsp; (Jewish records stop abruptly in spring of 1942, of course.)&nbsp; The archivists are very obliging:&nbsp; they will readily carry out the impressive, heavy tomes, and help you search for your great-grandfather's birth certificate.&nbsp; Look to the right of the entry: there you may see&nbsp; the signature of your <i>great-great grandfather</i>--if it was he who reported the birth!&nbsp; It is possible to photocopy the signature on the spot, and, for a nominal fee,&nbsp; order official certificates.&nbsp; You can also contact&nbsp; the archives in Presov and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bratislava</st1:City></st1:place>&nbsp; with research requests. </span><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:Arial'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1032" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:255pt;height:168pt'> <v:imagedata src="image009.jpg" o:title="Stropkov Postcard"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=340 height=224 src="image009.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1032"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#993366'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>While You re in the Neighborhood<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'>Because a few short hours will suffice in Stropkov itself, it is recommended that the tourist&nbsp; also visit other&nbsp; Eastern Slovakia sights: Bardejov, the Bardejov Spa, <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>the <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>impressive wooden churches, Dukla, the Rusyn villages, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Andy</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Warhol</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in Medzilaborce, the renovated synagogue in Presov, etc. Keep in mind that almost no English is spoken in this part of the world.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Brush up on your<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Czech,Slovakian, Russian, and/or German--or hire a translator.&nbsp;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-family:Arial'>&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'><a href="http://www.slovakspectator.sk/">Read the latest issue of <i>The Slovak Spectator.</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#330033'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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