The following was left anonymously as a comment to this post about the only surviving jew of Rybotycze - Moses Rubinfeld.

After so many years, I came across this beautiful letter by accident.

I was born in Rybotycze, I grew up in Rybotycze, my father was born in the village of Borysławka after the war in Rybotycze, my mother was born and lived in Rybotycze.

My parents are dead, but I often heard from my dad that three different denominations people lived next to each other, they helped each other.

The town of Rybotycze was a developing town until 1918, and in 1918 there was the second fire in Rybotycze.

Dad remembers his childhood in Rybotycze very well, although after the war there was terrible poverty because in our country there were fights with Stalin for the eastern land until 1947 by the UPA.

Behind the village of Rybotycze towards Bircza, where we grazed cows, there is a large square and there was a lot of unevenness, then my father said that from the story he knows what a small child was then 7 years old that the Germans chased all the Jews from Rybotycze at night from the village and in the morning they had to dig graves in this meadow for myself, I will add that dad said that they had to stand at the graves and a non-German soldier was shooting at them because he said that it was too hard for his psyche, so he had to shoot a Jew, brother shoot his brother, sister, sister, mother, daughter and bury them only when he was last, the German killed and buried him.

This story is very remembered by my dad and I also remember when we are in Rybotycze in the summer, I often think about this square where as a child I fell cows and in this land so much pain and so much blood was spilled.

I do not know if you are still alive, but I will say that the people you mentioned are mostly dead. If you are already dead, your children or friends may read it.

Yours sincerely Jadwiga Sroka