Before World War II, Lvov’s 150,000 Jews comprised one of the most vibrant, sophisticated Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. But when the Nazis marched into town in late June 1941 ...

The Germans subsequently occupied Lvov after the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. More than 6,000 Jews died in pogroms carried out by local residents in the summer of 1941— even before ...

Far greater emotions are stirred up by the date of his death – 4 July 1941 – which is due to the controversy that surrounds the period of Boy’s residency in Lviv… All these manuscripts, preserved with ...

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has published an archival document detailing the atrocities of an elite SS division involved in the mass extermination of Jews from Lvov to Kiev in 1941 ...