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The dramatic poem "Shoah" by the Pidhaitsi poet Bohdan Maniok highlights the topic of the Shoah of Galician Jewry during the Second World War. The creative idea was formed under the influence of old-timers' stories about the horrific episodes of the Holocaust in Pidhaitsi, a small picturesque town in the Ternopil region.

This indescribably romantic story of the struggle for life, self-sacrifice in a time of hopelessness, vividly demonstrated by Ishchak Shurtz and Liba Fink, can touch everyone. The magical rescue of the Jews with the help of a celestial stone against the backdrop of emotionally charged scenes of the liquidation of the ghetto is a deeply symbolic authorial finding and a successful compositional solution.

It is significant that salvation comes from the hands of a Ukrainian, Bibryk, who was associated with the OUN underground, and in this way the author appeals to the act of another Ukrainian, Dmytro Leonchyk, a deeply religious man, which already belongs to the category of the Righteous Among the Nations. Ukrainian literature has also confirmed its potential for popularising global themes. And for the people of Pidhaiany, this wonderful story, embodied in a perfect poetic form, is becoming another urban legend.