Lwów
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Lontsky Prison
Prison to which Jews were transported during the violence.
German leadership
Leadership described as directing anti-Jewish incitement and violence.
I Came from Spetsia
A book by Yitzhak Levin cited as a source.
Brygidky Prison
Prison courtyard where Jewish victims were killed.
Metropolitan Sheptytsky
Metropolitan whom Levin petitioned to protect Jews.
Opiniah
Jewish-Polish weekly edited by Dr. Levin.
Yitzhak Levin
Son who witnessed his father’s final moments at Brygidky.
Chronicle of a Man from Lviv
Chronicle by Yitzhak Farber cited in a footnote.
Yitzhak Farber
Author of Chronicle of a Man from Lviv.
Dr. Ezekiel Levin
A doctor identified as the brother of Aaron Levin.
Aaron Levin
A rabbi, Jewish organization leader, and Polish parliamentary representative.
Chwila
A Polish-language daily newspaper edited by Henrik Shlem.
Former GPU prison in Lviv
A prison formerly belonging to the GPU and later occupied by the German army.
Dobromyl
A place in eastern Galicia where similar killings were reported.
Yavoriv
A place in eastern Galicia where similar killings were reported.
Symon Petliura
Ukrainian political and military leader referred to as an ataman.
Shalom Schwartzbard
Jewish man identified as Petliura's killer in Paris.
Lesienice Forest
Forest near Lviv where captured Jewish suspects were executed.
Lontsko Street Prison
Prison courtyard where many abducted Jews were brought.
Yakovych Street
Street whose Jewish residents were removed during the reprisal.
Saint Anna School
School building that housed a German military hospital.
Petliura Action
Anti-Jewish violence in which Ukrainian nationalists abducted and killed Jews.
Civil committees
Committees established across city districts to collect the required sum.
German and Ukrainian police groups
Small groups that entered Jewish homes and took hostages.
Christian Poles
Some donated contributions, usually anonymously.
General von Roch
General identified as signing the ransom notice.
German forces
Forces described as bombing and shelling the city during their attack.
Old Turei Zahav Synagogue
An old synagogue burned by German authorities.
Moshe (Maurice) Alrhand
Scholar of jurisprudence and professor at Lviv University, offered leadership of the Jewish council.
Yehuda Erlich
Declined a Jewish council membership position when invited by the Germans.
Lviv Jewish Council
Council established in July 1941 as an executive mechanism for German orders.
Adolf Rotfeld
Deputy chair of the Jewish council in autumn 1941.
Dr. Henrik Landsberg
Public activist and former B'nai B'rith member who was murdered in 1942.
Osold Kimelman
Member of the Jewish council in autumn 1941.
Edmund Scherzer
Member of the Jewish council in autumn 1941.
Naftali Landau
Engineer and member of the Jewish council in autumn 1941.