Qualla: Lviv pogroms (1941) https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/c/1/lviv-pogroms-1941-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lviv pogroms (1941) https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941 Lviv pogroms (1941): Introduction https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941/ Photo credit Franke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. Before the killing began, Lviv was a city of three peoples. Of its 312,231 residents in 1939, just over half were ethnic Poles, 32 percent were Jewish -- nearly 100,000 people -- and 16 percent were Ukrainian. They shared streets, markets, and neighborhoods, if not always trust. By the time Soviet forces reached Lviv on 21 July 1944, less than one percent of the city's Jewish population had survived. The destruction began not in the distant machinery of extermination camps but in the city itself, in the last days of June 1941, when German forces arrived and the killing started in the streets, the courtyards, and the prisons where Jewish men, women, and children were dragged by their neighbors.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/c/1/lviv-pogroms-1941-wp/u8c1-lviv-pogroms-1941-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lviv pogroms (1941): A City Caught Between Empires https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941/ Photo credit Franke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. Lviv -- known as Lwow in Polish, Lemberg in German -- had changed hands repeatedly. Part of the Second Polish Republic from 1918 to 1939, the city was annexed by the Soviet Union after the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. Soviet rule brought the NKVD secr...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/c/1/lviv-pogroms-1941-wp/u8c1-lviv-pogroms-1941-a-city-caught-between-empires.mp3 0:06 2 full Lviv pogroms (1941): The Days of Blood https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941/ Photo credit Franke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. German forces entered Lviv in the early hours of 30 June 1941. That same day, a Ukrainian People's Militia formed in the city, incorporating members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), former Soviet policemen who switched sides, and local volunteers wearing yello...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/c/1/lviv-pogroms-1941-wp/u8c1-lviv-pogroms-1941-the-days-of-blood.mp3 0:06 3 full Lviv pogroms (1941): Petliura Days https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941/ Photo credit Franke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. A second pogrom struck in late July. Named for Symon Petliura, the assassinated Ukrainian nationalist leader, the so-called Petliura Days began on 25 July when militants assembled at police stations across the city. Accompanied by the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, they attacked Jew...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/c/1/lviv-pogroms-1941-wp/u8c1-lviv-pogroms-1941-petliura-days.mp3 0:06 4 full Lviv pogroms (1941): The Ghetto and the End https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941/ Photo credit Franke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. The pogroms were only the beginning. In November 1941, SS-Brigadefuhrer Fritz Katzmann ordered the establishment of the Lwow Ghetto. At its peak, the ghetto held some 120,000 Jewish people, most of whom were deported to the Belzec extermination camp or murdered locally over the n...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/c/1/lviv-pogroms-1941-wp/u8c1-lviv-pogroms-1941-the-ghetto-and-the-end.mp3 0:06 5 full Lviv pogroms (1941): Memory and Its Distortions https://qualla.com/lviv-pogroms-1941/ Photo credit Franke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. For decades, the pogroms received limited scholarly attention. Soviet historiography erased the ethnicity of both victims and perpetrators, folding Jewish dead into the category of undifferentiated Soviet civilian casualties. Ukrainian nationalist organizations worked actively to...

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