Harris Sterman asked what his grandfather meant when he said he counted trees in the Stryj/Turka area between the 1920s and the outbreak of the Second World War.
Along the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains there were flourishing lumber companies during this period and earlier. Many Jews were active in the industry. My husband's grandfather and great grandfather owned lumber companies in the Stryj and Drohobych areas that exported wood all over Europe. His father was a forestry engineer trained in the Polytechnic University of Lwow. There were also many sawmills in the region. It would seem to me that Mr Sterman's grandfather could have been an employee in a lumber company.
