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Nazi Germany occupied Lvov, Poland in 1941. Learn about Lvov during World War II, the establishment of the Lvov ghetto, and deportations of Jews from there.
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre. The city of L''viv, founded in the late Middle Ages, was a flourishing administrative, religious and commercial centre for several centuries.
The old town of Lviv. Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів ⓘ, L’viv; Polish: Lwów; German: Lemberg or Leopoldstadt [citation needed] (archaic); Yiddish: לעמבערג; Russian: Львов, romanized: Lvov, see also other names) is an administrative center in western Ukraine with more than a millennium of history as a settlement, and over seven centuries as a city.
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The movie, shot right before the outbreak of the WWII, shows that the interwar Lviv was a place where Jewish community built a vibrant religious, cultural and economic life. Before the Second World War, the city's population numbered 312.231 people, of which 157.490 (50.4%) were Poles, 99.595 (31.9%) – Jews and 49.747 (15.9%) Ukrainians.
Photo by Els Slots. L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centre represents a late medieval crossing point of cultures and architectural traditions. The trade routes in the Middle Ages attracted a number of ethnic groups with different traditions: Ukrainian, Armenian, German, Jewish, Polish, Italian and Austrian.
October 15, 2013, was the first time I had stepped on the soil of L’viv in 68 years. I was born here in 1941. I was hidden here—first in a bunker in the barn of my dziadzio (grandpa in Polish), next in a tunnel bunker in the Borszczowice Forest, along with 30 or so other Jews. Later, I was hidden in the home of the Schwarczynskis, a retired Polish Catholic engineer and his wife. I was the ...
