Dear Friends of the Jewish Lviv,
Exactly 80 years later, we are inviting you to the ceremony commemorating the Jewish victims of the pogroms in 1941 in Lwow.
The ceremony is hosted by Valiske Assoc and Alexandr Trostyanitsyn, co-organized by the members of the Facebook group ORGANIZATION OF LWOW ORIGIN JEWS and friends from Lviv.
DATE: June 30, 2021
TIME: 18:00 EEST
PLACE: Lviv, ghetto monument
ONLINE ZOOM: Please write me a message at agnieszka.spinner@gmail.com
In 1939, the city of Lwow had around 110, 000 Jewish residents. It was the third biggest Jewish community in Poland, after Warsaw and Lodz. When World War 2 broke out, more Jewish refugees escaped to Lwow from the territories occupied by the Germans. The estimations suggest that there were over 200 000 Jewish inhabitants in the city.
In June 21, 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, in the operation known as Barbarossa. Lwow was conquered by the Germans on June 21, 1941.
On the following day, June 30 1941, the anti-Jewish pogrom began. It is believed to be the greatest massacre executed by the civilians against their Jewish neighbours in the history of Holocaust.
Holocaust historians estimated that during the invasion pogrom (June 30 - July 3, 1941) around 7000 to 8000 Jews were murdered. Among victims there were Henryk Hescheles, a very well-known journalist, the editor-in-chief of the Polish Jewish newspaper "Chwila, and the rabbi of the Lwow progressive synagogue "Tempel", Jecheskiel Lewin.
Further pogroms lasted till the end of July 1941, including the Petliura Days taking the death toll of at least 2000 Jewish victims.
You can participate directly in the on-site event at the ghetto monument in Lviv or join us online via Zoom.
DATE: June 30, 2021
TIME: 18:00 EEST
PLACE: Lviv, ghetto monument
ONLINE ZOOM: Send an email to agnieszka.spinner@gmail.com
