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Passed over by Nazis and Communists, remnants of Ukraine's last shtetl prepare to celebrate | The Times of Israel

Numbering just 50 today, the Jews of Bershad have managed to protect their 200-year-old clay synagogue through successive despotic regimes

It has never occurred to me that any shtetls survived the Holocaust. This is amazing. I am sure that this is exactly the kind of place that some of my ancestors came from.