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Samuel son of Joseph Hayut
A Torah scholar and prayer leader killed during prayer.
Jacob
A righteous person killed on a Sabbath in Lviv.
Solomon son of Samuel
Eliezer’s brother, killed on a Sabbath.
Shalom
Person memorialized as having died for the sanctification of God's name.
Yitzhak Yaar
Person memorialized as having died for the sanctification of God's name.
Zekharya ben Yaakov
Person memorialized as having died for the sanctification of God's name.
Shalom Nisan
Person memorialized as having died for the sanctification of God's name.
Shimon Meir
Person memorialized as having died for the sanctification of God's name.
Aaron son of Lapidot
A prominent Torah scholar, judge, teacher, and pious community leader.
Weizel
Described as Aaron son of Lapidot’s modest and pious wife.
Isaac
A Torah scholar and teacher, killed on 14 Iyar 5424.
Eliezer
A Torah scholar and teacher, killed on 14 Iyar 5424.
Chaim son of Mordecai
A distinguished Torah scholar killed on 20 Sivan 5424.
Chaim ben Mordechai
Chaim ben Mordechai is said to have been killed in 1664.
Natan Dambitzer
An author cited for a historical account of rabbis in Lviv.
Avraham of Cologne
A rabbi, teacher, and founder of yeshivas who settled in Lviv from the West.
Yekhiel, the Great Judge
Avraham of Cologne’s father and a great judge in Lviv.
Yohanan Barukh Miyona
A prominent physician named in a cemetery inscription and family history.
Simhah Menahem son of Yohanan Barukh Miyona
A physician, community leader, and benefactor known as Simhah Doctor.
Eliezer son of Yohanan Barukh Miyona
A physician named in a cemetery inscription and family history.
G. Suchestaver
Author of a work documenting tombstone inscriptions in Lviv.
Gabriel Sokhestaver
An author cited for inscriptions and monuments of prominent Lviv Jews.
P. Friedman
Author of a chapter on the destruction of Lviv Jews.
General Katzmann
German police general who estimated Lviv’s Jewish population in July–August 1941.
Stepan Bandera
Leader of the Ukrainian nationalist party who arrived in Lviv in 1941.
Andrey Sheptytsky
Metropolitan who warned Ukrainian believers against bloodshed and violence.
Erwin Schulz
SS and Gestapo official who testified about operations in Lviv at Nuremberg.
Metropolitan Sheptytsky
Metropolitan whom Levin petitioned to protect Jews.
Yitzhak Levin
Son who witnessed his father’s final moments at Brygidky.
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.
Symon Petliura
Ukrainian political and military leader referred to as an ataman.
Shalom Schwartzbard
Jewish man identified as Petliura's killer in Paris.
General von Roch
General identified as signing the ransom notice.
Moshe (Maurice) Alrhand
Scholar of jurisprudence and professor at Lviv University, offered leadership of the Jewish council.