ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="c1.css"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1255"> <title> TAL - Trochenbrod And Lozisht - Ø"Ü - ØèÕÛàÑèÕÓ-ÜÕÖÙéØ </title> </head> <body> <center> <a href="../f1.html"><img src="../t1l.jpg" vspace=3 border="0" alt="the journey to Trochenbrod And Lozisht aug 2006 - Ø"Ü - ØèÕÛàÑèÕÓ-ÜÕÖÙéØ"></a> <br> <img src="../c2tal.jpg" vspace=0 border="0" alt=" Trochenbrod And Lozisht "> <br> <a href="index.html"><font size=4 color=navy><b>Introduction</b></font></a> <br> <a href="p2.html"><font size=4 color=navy><b>1830-1914</b></font></a> <br> <a href="p3.html"><font size=4 color=navy><b>1914-1919</b></font></a> <br> <a href="p4.html"><font size=4 color=navy><b>1919-1939</b></font></a> <br> <a href="p5.html"><font size=4 color=navy><b>1939-1945</b></font></a> <br> <font size=4 color=teal><b>1946-2006</b></font> <br> <a href="../f1.html"><img src="../bf1.jpg" vspace=10 border="0" alt=" back to front page "></a> <br> <font size=3 color=blue> from Trochenbrod And Lozisht <br> nothing was left but fields. <br> the TAL people nevertheless <br> have never forgotten their community. <br> they gathered together <br> and met each other frequently <br> both in Israel and abroad <br> and in the early 1960 <br> founded TAL-House <br> ( Beit-TAL in Hebrew ) <br> in memory of the former TAL residents <br> who did not survive. <br> from then on <br> it has symbolised the continuation <br> of the relatively small community <br> with its many activities. <p> in 1988 a delegation from Israel <br> led by TAL veteran Tuvia Drory <br> ( eldest participant of the Journey ) <br> went back to the then USSR <br> and visited the now Ukrainian fields. <br> the same year <br> a thorough book about TAL <br> "the tree and its roots" <br> was published by TAL-House <p> during the following decades <br> another 2 visits to the towns <br> in 1992 and again in 2001 <br> were organised by TAL-House <br> for its members. <br> all they could see there <br> were 4 monuments and a forest. <p> in 2002 an acclaimed new novel <br> " Everything Is Illuminated " <br> by the then unknown American author <br> Jonathan Safran Foer <br> which depicted the small community <br> ( which is called "Trachimbrod" in the book ) <br> has made the towns unexpectedly famous <br> all over the world <br> due to its numerous translations. <br> and even more so in 2005 <br> when the book was made into a film <br> by director Liev Schreiber <br> starring Hollywood star Elijah Wood .<br> and Gogol Bordello front man Eugene Hutz <br> supported as well by many others. <p> in the summer of 2006 <br> more than half a century <br> after the demise of the towns <br> the Journey to TAL <br> organised by Yehuda Dotan <br> son of former TAL resident <br> Itschak Deutsch <br> took place. <p> <img src="p1.jpg" vspace=10 border="0" alt=" photo "> <p> a meeting in the 1960 of members of Tal - House , Israel. </font> <p> <a href="#"><img src="../logo1.jpg" vspace=10 border="0" alt=" logo "></a> <p> </center> </body> </html>