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Background Kolomea (or Kolomyya; Pol., Kołomyja; Ger., Kolomea, Colomea) is a city on the Prut River in Ukraine. Jews first settled in Kołomea, then part of Poland, at about the turn of the sixteenth century. Although many were murdered and the community was destroyed during the Khmel’nyts’kyi massacres of 1648–1649, the Jewish population quickly reestablished itself and numbered more than 1,00...