“Territory of Terror” Museum | Exhibition in Yanovsky Concentration Camp | Lviv, Ukraine
Authentic archive photos, maps, eye-witnesses accounts, and other exclusive items. This is a unique exhibition devoted to Yanovsky Concentration Camp in Lviv, Ukraine “Territory of Terror” museum. The name “Yanovsky Concentration Camp” may not ring any bells with you. No wonder! Since the information about this “death machine” where many people, especially Jews were massacred – has been shrouded in mystery for decades. The exhibition was opened last year. And it created a stir right away.
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History of the Grand City of Lviv | Exploring Architecture
Located in the west of Ukraine Lviv is a marvelous city steeped in legends. In Europe, it was also referred to as the “Little Paris” or the “Little London”, but the locals proudly call it the Great Lviv. Its paved streets, stone buildings and a myriad of monuments lion statues reflect the history of many cultures that left their mark on the city.
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Jewish free walking tour in Lviv - Day 6 vlog
The Jewish free walking tour by the Polish Free Walkative company was a new tour when we did it in May 2019.
I truly recommend it!!! The guide was extremely knowledgeable, the locations are unique. Even for those who don't usually join history tours, keep in mind that these stories are part of this city and will reveal another facet of the place.
Here's is my blog about other things to do in Lviv, Ukraine:
Landmarks - Lviv - Lviv History Museum
Walking on Jewish Street in Odessa
Streets in Odessa were genuinely named after whatever ethnic group lived on it; Jewish Street, Greek Street, Bulgarian Street, and so on. During Soviet times, Jewish Street in the Moldavanka section of Odessa, was renamed Babel Street after Issak Babel, the renowned writer who also happened to be a loyal Communist member. The street reverted to its original name during the 1950s.
The Great Synagogue is on Jewish Street; built on the spot where the first wooden synagogue stood. During Soviet times, the synagogue was turned into a woman's gymnasium. Visitors are allowed to enter.
An interesting tidbit of information about Jewish Street - The former, very antisemitic KGB is located here.When Babel Street was renamed Jewish Street, they moved their entrance so as not to have an address on Jewish Street!
Inside Ukraine Liberation Movement Museum Lviv Ukraine Dec 2015
Mysterious Jewish prayer room in Lviv
Short movie from a visit in a Jewish prayer room recently discovered in Lviv.
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Tour of Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine
Vlog #82 Tour of Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine
ARMENIAN heritage in LVIV, Ukraine
This is english project in Ukrainain Catholic University about cultural heritage of Armenians in Lviv.
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Here we made a historical research about Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, wooden chapel Golgotha, Palace of Armenian Archbishops and famous coffee shop Under a blue flask. We try to figure out when Armenians appear in Lviv and how their herritage exist in modern reality.
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On project worked:
Elina Andrus - operator
Valeria Pinchuk - montage
Ukrainian Brewery Museum Offers Insight Into Lviv's History
Lviv, Ukraine has a storied history - dating back to the 13th century. But would you believe that the city's history is closely connected to the world's oldest alcoholic drink?
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Grim Legacy: Human remains found in courtyard of Lviv prison museum
Remains of at least 12 people were unearthed at an excavation site in the courtyard of former Soviet and Nazi torture chambers in Lviv, on the territory of the present-day Prison on Lontskoho Street memorial museum. Specialists says the remains could be just the first grim founding as only upper layer of the ground was removed.
According to historians, victims of the Soviet NKVD secret police are buried in the newly discovered mass grave, because Soviet bullets, tableware and a certificate with Cyrillic writing were found there as well.
The chaotic way the bodies were placed and household garbage on the top also point to the NKVD pattern. Historians say the Nazis, who also used the premises at some period of time, buried their victims in a more orderly way.
There are three theories of who is buried at the site. The first assumption says these are graves of 1939-41 when the prison was just occupied but the NKVD and the executions of political prisoners started.
The second version says the burial was made in June 1941, when the Nazi Germans were advancing and the Soviet secret police was ordered to cover up their traces and execute all the prisoners. According to the third version, the mass executions by firing squad were made after 1945.
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Anna Susak (Lviv, Ukraine)
Lieux d'oubli: collective memory of the Holocaust in post-communist Lviv.
The Second International Conference Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-communist Countries: Challenges and Opportunities.
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May, 2013.
Catacombs in Lviv, Ukraine (underground polish tour) Day 4 vlog
The catacombs of Lviv are under its churches, and the entrance to each one is a bit to a side or even at the back of the church. You can see posters at the entrances or just ask around.
Here's the list of the catacombs to visit:
Dominican Cathedral ( as you look at the front entrance, the entrance to the catacombs are to your left)
Jesuit Church (Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul) - The entrance of the catacombs are at the back of the church
Verklärungskirche Lemberg (the entrance is on the side, from the Lesi Ukrainky St)
Small Museum inside Jewish centre in Lvov - July 2012
Janowska - German concentration camp in Lwow
Janowska concentration camp was a German labor, transit and extermination camp established in September 1941 in occupied Poland on the outskirts of Lwów .
The camp was labeled Janowska after the nearby street ulica Janowska in Lwów.
in September 1941, the Germans set up a D.A.W. (Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke – the German Armament Works) workshop in prewar Steinhaus' mill machines factory on 134 Janowska Street, in northwestern suburbs of Lwów.
This factory became a part of a network of factories, owned and operated by the SS. The commandant of the camp was SS-Haupsturmführer Fritz Gebauer.
In October 1941, Germans established a concentration camp beside the factory, which housed the forced laborers along with the rest of the prisoners. Thousands of Jews from the Lwów ghetto were forced to work as slave laborers in this camp. When the Lwów ghetto was liquidated by Germans, the ghetto's inhabitants who were fit for work were sent to the Janowska camp; the rest were deported to the Belzec camp for extermination.
Janowska was also an execution site proper, where thousands of Jews and Poles from Lwow were murdered in the Piaski ravine immediately north of the camp .
Janowska camp was liquidated in November 1943.
Current estimates of the total number of Jews , Poles and Ukrainians murdered by Germans at Janowska camp is very broad , between 100,000-200,000.
80%-85% of them were Polish Jews , 10%-15% Poles .
You can see execution site Piaski on this video , taken in March 2017 .
Beer Cultural Experience Center “Lvivarnya” in Lviv, Ukraine (vlog)
What to do on a rainy afternoon in Lviv, Ukraine? This beer museum is a nice attraction to visit because beer is a big thing in Central Europe.
The museum gives a good overview of the history of beer and how it related to Lviv. It is a self-guided tour and you can take pics. Great interactive exhibitions and there are English explanations and you can take pics.
And they have beer tasting at the end!
Modern Ukrainian Embroidery | Master of Crafts
It is the place where political prisoners were kept under two totalitarian regimes. The prison on Lontskiy Street in Lviv is a monument to the crimes of the Third Reich, as well as the Soviet Union. In 1939, when Western Ukraine was seized by the USSR, there was an NKVD office here. During the offensive of the German troops in 1941, KGB officers shot around a thousand people here before retreating.
Until 1944, the building was occupied by the Gestapo jail, in addition, there were Einsatzgruppen aimed at targeting the Jewish population.
From 1944, the Soviet secret service returned here and used the prison until the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Today, it is a museum of political repression, which tells about all the hardships of local prisoners in different years.
In 2018, “Prison on Lontskyi Street” presented an unusual exhibition titled “The Color of Prayer.”
The exhibition included more than 50 artifacts - mostly icons and napkins embroidered by female prisoners in this and in other Soviet prisons.
It was forbidden to have needles and do needlework with the application of religious symbols. Because the prison guards destroyed all the items that they found during searches.
Yet, in the most desperate situation, the victims of terror found the strength to embroider Ukrainian patterns and images for prayers. Fish bones, matches or branches were used as needles and the threads were taken from their own clothes.
No matter how brutally the totalitarian state and system tried to destroy Ukrainian national identity, these fragile things have survived to this very day.
After all, embroidery is not just a handicraft, but an essential element of the cultural code of Ukrainians. This conviction inspires the master to work and develop new and unexpected forms in this unique form of art.
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PERFECT CEMETERY LVIV UKRAINE - LYCHAKIV
very interseting cemetery of lviv . couldn't see like this before. one side is about world war dead soldiers , one side is about poets, politicions, pianist and singers about poland and ukraine .
love it . you will like i promise .
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Odessa's Jewish past and present
This city on the shores of the Black Sea became home to a diverse group of people - Albanians, Armenians, Azeris, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Frenchmen, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians - and Jews. Odessa.
Today, we revisit Odessa's Jewish history.