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Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Lviv South District
Phone:
+380 93 073 3822

Address:
Ivana Vygovskogo Street, 100 | Pivdenniy Shopping Mall, Lviv 79071, Ukraine

The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive massacres of Jews living in the city of Lwów , perpetrated by the German commandos and the Ukrainian nationalists from 30 June to 2 July 1941, and from 25 to 29 July 1941, during the Wehrmacht's attack on the Soviet positions in occupied eastern Poland in World War II. Historian Peter Longerich and the Holocaust Encyclopedia estimate that the first pogrom cost at least 4,000 lives. It was followed by the additional 2,500 to 3,000 arrests and executions in subsequent Einsatzgruppe killings, and culminated in the so-called Petlura Days massacre of more than 2,000 Jews, all killed in a one-month span.Prior to the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and the ensuing Holocaust in Europe, the city of Lviv had the third-largest Jewish population in Poland during the interwar period, which swelled further to over 200,000 Jews as the refugees fled east from the Nazis. Right after the conquest of Poland, on 28 September 1939, the USSR and Germany signed a frontier treaty assigning about 200,000 km² of land inhabited by 13.5 million people of all nationalities to the Soviet Union. Lviv remained in the Soviet zone of occupation for two years. Of the estimated total of 20,000–30,000 former citizens of Poland executed by the Soviet NKVD as enemies of the people, nearly 9,000 were murdered in the newly-acquired western Ukraine. Sovietization policies in Polish lands – cordoned off from the rest of the USSR – included confiscation of property and mass deportations of the hundreds of thousands of local citizens to Siberia. On Sunday, 22 June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union.
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