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Execution of Cecilia Klapt
Cecilia Klapt was executed in summer 1942; an account says she resisted while being taken to a mass grave.
Death of Jacob Rapoport
Jacob Rapoport died during the first days of the Nazi occupation after a severe illness.
Murder of Rona Raitman
Rona Raitman was murdered during the first pogrom in July 1941.
Capture of Meshulam Ratig
Meshulam Ratig was captured with hundreds of Lviv Jews when the Germans entered Lviv.
Murder of Meshulam Ratig
Meshulam Ratig was murdered during the liquidation of the Grodek-Jagiellonski ghetto in early 1943.
Michael Ringle leaves Lviv
Michael Ringle left Lviv for Volhynia after Soviet entry and arrests of Zionist activists.
Feivel Reizer killed in Zaloczow Aktion
Feivel Reizer was killed during the Zaloczow Aktion in summer 1942.
Mordechai Rabinowitz murdered at Janowska
Mordechai Rabinowitz was murdered at Janowska camp in summer 1943.
Abraham Rotfeld dies
Abraham Rotfeld died naturally after suffering a stroke in spring 1942.
David Schreiber murdered during ghetto liquidation
David Schreiber was murdered during the liquidation of the ghetto in June 1943.
Shuderikh leaves the ghetto
Shuderikh left the ghetto with young people in winter 1943.
Max Shaaf deported to Belzec
Max Shaaf was deported to Belzec in August 1942.
Jewish writers delegation visits Moscow
The Lviv Jewish writers delegation was invited to visit Moscow in 1940.
Benjamin Shor murdered
Benjamin Shor was killed in November 1942.
Yoel Spiegel’s death
Yoel Spiegel died of typhus at the end of 1942.
Rabbi Hillel Shperber’s death in Zbarazh
Rabbi Hillel Shperber died under torture when German forces entered Zbarazh in July 1941.
Karaite residents
Karaite residents living in the Krakow quarter.
Black Sea
Coast and trade route associated with Venetian and Genoese colonies.
Transylvania
Origin of a trade route passing through Lviv.
Asia Minor
Destination of goods transported through Lviv.
Jewish community of Lviv
Jewish residents whose rights and demographic changes are described.
Jewish immigrants from Germany
German Jewish migrants who arrived in Lviv during Casimir's reign.
Khazarite-Karaite settlement
Settlement gradually displaced by newer German-speaking Jewish immigrants.
Ashkenazi Jews
Their language and customs became dominant in the Jewish settlement.
Lviv municipality
Municipal authority from whose jurisdiction Jews were excluded.
Kazimir the Great
King who approved privileges and urban regulations involving Jews.
Boleslav the Pious
Ruler associated with the 1264 general privilege for Jews.
Krakow
City where the urban regulation was approved.
Sandomierz
City named in the 1367 privilege request.
Hungary
Kingdom associated with later commercial guidance for Jews.
Ludwig of Anjou
Hungarian king who succeeded Kazimir in 1370.
Israel ben Petahia Isserlein
Rabbi whose responsa mention the Austria-Hungary trade route.
Leket Yosher
Book by Israel Isserlein's student Joseph ben Moses Hochstadt.
Joseph ben Moses Hochstadt
Student of Rabbi Israel Isserlein and author of Leket Yosher.
Solomon
Member of a three-person Lviv Jewish trading partnership in 1383.
Jacob
Member of a three-person Lviv Jewish trading partnership in 1383.