Jewish Telegraphic Agency8 年
Lviv Ghetto memorial vandalized in anti-Semitic attack
In 1939, approximately 110,000 Jews lived in Lviv, where they constituted one-third of the city’s total population, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Nearly all of them ...
BBC2 年
'It is terrible': For Ukraine's Jews and Roma, war revives old traumas
No one wants to help us." Lviv was also the scene of one of the most brutal pogroms of the Holocaust, in which thousands of Jews were brutally killed by the Germans and their Ukrainian ...
Brandeis University4 年
Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency10 年
Lviv mayor: France’s anti-Semitism problem bigger than Ukraine’s
The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Lviv told participants of a Jewish learning conference that France has a bigger anti-Semitism problem than his country. (JTA) — The mayor of the Ukrainian city ...
PBS5 年
Maps of the Holocaust
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 ...