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Description:... Describes the sufferings of the Jews during the German occupation of Lvov (June 1941-July 1944), based on documents, testimonies, and interviews. In summer-fall 1941 many Jews were murdered in pogroms, by Nazis and Ukrainians; most of the synagogues in the city were burned. The ghetto was established in December 1941; ca. 5,000 Jews, the old and the sick, were killed immediately. Describes daily life in the ghetto: family life, economic conditions, transportation, work, health conditions, and contact with the outside world, as well as underground activities, escapes, experiences of Jews in hiding, and attempts by the Jews to maintain dignity and cultural life in spite of the hardships. Deportations began in March 1942; in January 1943 the ghetto became a labor camp, and in June it was liquidated. Ca. 136,800 Jews from Lvov were murdered in the Holocaust; only ca. 800 survived.
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