On August 4th, the participants of the International Children's Camp Roots of Tolerance (held by the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine (CNCU) for the 11th year in a row with the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC)) have taken part in an expedition to the Jewish places of Vyzhnystsa.

Before World War I, almost 90% of Vyzhnytsa residents were Jews. Now there is only one Jew remaining. Vyzhnytsa was an important Hasidic center in Bukovina, and the birth city of the last Yiddish writer of Eastern Europe, Joseph Burg.

The teenagers made photos of synagogue buildings, the rabbi school, the mikvah, interviewed the locals. A mezuza mark was found at the door post of one house. Amazingly, but not one house had a sign that would explain that Vyzhnytsa used to be a Jewish town before the war.

The teenagers will be creating projects on the basis of the expedition, the best of which will be placed online at the www.tolerspace.org.ua website.

This year's Roots of Tolerance hosted members fo 12 nationalities – Crimean Tatars, Bulgarians, Greeks, Uzbeks, Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Azerbaijani, Romanians, Jews, Iranians, and Afghani.