Before World War II, Lvov’s 150,000 Jews comprised one of the most vibrant, sophisticated Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. But when the Nazis marched into town in late June 1941, the ...

Born in Lviv, Poland, now in modern-day Ukraine, in 1932, Ms Webber was living in the city when Germany invaded the region, ...

The non-Jewish waiters wear fake peyot and haggle over prices at a quasi-Jewish restaurant attached to the historic, ruined Golden Rose Synagogue. LVIV, Ukraine (JTA) — There’s a Jewish-themed ...

Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then ...

LVIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, commemorated Sunday the 75th anniversary of the annihilation newslink MAUI NEWS × ...

Before an international commission in The Hague this month, Oberlaender denied a charge that he ordered the massacre of 2,400 Ukrainians, Poles and Jews at Lvov, declared that the Russians did it ...

Sharing a photograph of the Lviv Hanukkiah on social media ... which killed thousands of Jews and Poles. Ukrainian historian Marta Havryshko shared on Wednesday a video of a red flare lit by ...

Alexander Ivanov is Senior Researcher at the European University at St. Petersburg. Alexander Lvov is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg. Harriet Murav ...

After a series of failed attempts to lay low and hide with farming families in the Polish countryside, Ms Webber returned to Lviv and took refuge with her aunt, uncle and a group of other Jewish ...