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 ...

Jews in Lvov, Ukraine, say that returning religious artifacts held in the city’s museums to synagogues and Jewish institutions can help reinvigorate a once-proud community. LVOV, Ukraine ...

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 ...

Valerii Dymshits is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Interdepartmental Center, “Petersburg Judaica,” at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. Alexander Ivanov is ...

Janine Webber BEM, 92, hid under a wardrobe with her family to avoid Nazi persecution during the Second World War ...

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 × ...

30,000 of them came from the Lublin ghetto; 15,000 had been transported to the camp from Lvov. In May 1942, members of the Jewish Labor Bund in Poland managed to transmit a message to the exiled ...

A Holocaust survivor has shared her harrowing story growing up as a Jew during World War II to crowds in Southampton.

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 ...