The Heavens Are Empty: Discovering The Lost Town Of Trochenbrod - Plot & Excerpts
I beg hold fast these words of mine, After this darkness a light will shine. Trochenbrod, the town that some thought would be a thriving city today, is gone. In the nearly seven decades since its annihilation, what happened to the physical space that Trochenbrod occupied? What happened to the land that might have borne the roads, houses, parks, and buildings of an urban center named Trochenbrod, or Sofiyovka? After the people of Trochenbrod were murdered, the German army put the land of Trochenbrod and its satellite villages to use supplying food for its soldiers. A Sonderführer (an army specialist with a nonmilitary skill) who knew how to run a large farm was brought in, and he established a forced-labor system for people from the surrounding villages to work on the former land of Trochenbrod, now his farm. He had the villagers build him a house near where the last synagogue had been, at the north end of town where today the black marble monument stands. For the house and for several other new farm buildings he had them use materials from dismantled Trochenbrod houses.
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