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Ukraine: Friedhofsregister, Lviv, 1941-1942
Lviv (Lvov) is a city in the historical region of Eastern Galicia, or in present-day Ukraine. From 1772 to 1918 it was under Austrian rule, and in the interwar period it was a provincial capital in independent Poland. In 1939 it had a Jewish population of 110,000 - the third largest Jewish community in the country at the time.
About this Database:
This database is a list of those buried in the graveyard of the Jewish community of Lviv during the years 1941-1942. During this period thousands of Jews were killed in the area for various reasons. Some of these include:
- Accusations of taking part in the execution of Ukrainian political prisoners whose bodies were discovered by the NKVD (Soviet political police)
- Forced labor
- Elderly and sick killed during moving to a ghetto
- Extermination camps
- Lacked ownership of employment cards or certificates
- Hangings
- Classified as "illegals"
- Not classified as "vitally important"
The lists used to compile this database come from 3 separate files: two files dated 1941 and 1942, in Roman characters; and a third file, dated 1941, in Cyrillic. There are a total of 9,174 records in the three files: 1,364 in the Cyrillic; 1,756 and 6,054 in the two files in Roman characters.
The Cyrillic file has the following fields:
- Number
- Surname
- Given Name
- Age at death
- Date of Death
- Street Address
- Burial Date
- An unidentified field
- Plot number
- Plot cost
The fields in the files written in Roman characters are:
- Page number
- Serial Number
- Surname
- Given name
- Honorary title
- Age at death
- Date of death
- Last known address (transcribed)
- Last known address (from web site for Ulice Lwowa): http://ulicelwowa.webpark.pl/ul_lwowa.htm
- Date of burial
- Plot location/sector and tomb
- Price
This list comes from Yad Vashem archive file M.52 371, but was originally obtained from the Government Archive of the L'vov Oblast (Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Lvovskoy Oblasti), Lvov, Ukraine.
