Harry Waldinger

Harry was born in Stryy, which was part of the Austrian empire until it became part of Poland, in the Galincia area:

A Very Brief Introduction to Stryy

Stryy is located in Western Ukraine (formerly Eastern Galicia) about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of L'viv. Variants on its spelling include Stryj (Polish), Stryi, Stryia, and Stry. Throughout this page the "official" JewishGen spelling of "Stryy" will be used, unless a different spelling is used in a specific document title.

Stryy was first populated by Jews in the late 1500's. The first synagogue was built in 1660. After Poland was partitioned, Stryy became part of the Austrian Empire in 1772, at which time there were about 440 Jewish families in the town and suburbs. After World War I, Stryy was part of the area that became a free and sovereign Poland. The town had a Jewish population s 10,988 in 1921 and about 12,000 in 1939.

The Germans occupied Stryy on July 2, 1941, and hundreds of Jews were immediately killed. In November 1941, 1,200 Jews were shot in the Holobotow forest. Several depotations to extermination camps took place beginning in September, 1942. Between June and August of 1943 the Stryy ghetto and labor camps near the town were liquidated. When the Soviet army occupied Stryy in August, 1944 there were only a few Jewish survivors. No Jewish community was re-established.

from: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Stryy/