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L'viv 1941 Most likely, this leaflet was hung on wall in public places. This order was allowed for Jews to live only in city or village communities (Jewish permanent residency). However, they were able to go to work or shopping. The punishment for insubordination was three months imprisonment or mulct of one thousand Polish złoty. Jews also could be sent to the labor camps. Galicia became a part of the Second Polish Republic in 1918 and fell under the Soviet occupation in 1939 as part of the Soviet Ukraine. The District of Galicia was created by Nazi Germany on 1st August 1941 after the opening of Operation Barbarossa. The German anti-Jewish propaganda in Galicia was very powerful. 'In June-July 1941 it is estimated that over 4,000 Jews were murdered in pogroms (consecutive massacres) in L'viv and other cities in Western Ukraine' (Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1990). The L'viv Ghetto became one of the largest Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany. This special issue was prepared for Kamianka… Read More
