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    The Lwów Ghetto (German: Ghetto Lemberg; Polish: getto we Lwowie) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in the territory of Nazi-administered...
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    Jews from the Lwów ghetto were forced to work as slave laborers in this complex. When the Germans liquidated the Lwów ghetto, the ghetto's inhabitants who...
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    found in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst numbered about 2,500. The Łódź Ghetto had about 1,200, and the Lwów Ghetto had 500. Anatol...
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    Lviv (redirect from Lwów)
    Historical Museum of the City of Lwów (since 1891), the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, the Polish Historical Society, Lwów University, with Polish as...
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    Poland, housing five tertiary educational facilities, including Lwów University and Lwów Polytechnic. It was the home for many Polish and Polish Jewish...
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  • Commonwealth. Lwów or Lwow may also refer to: Lwów Ghetto, a Nazi ghetto Lwów Land, an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Poland Lwów Voivodeship, a...
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    ghettos was also met with armed struggle: Kraków Ghetto Łódź Ghetto Lwów Ghetto Lutsk Ghetto Marcinkonys Ghetto Minsk Ghetto Pińsk Ghetto Riga Ghetto...
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  • Herman Auerbach (category Lwów Ghetto inmates)
    was a Polish mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Auerbach was professor at Lwów University. During the Second World War because...
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    Simon Wiesenthal (category Lwów Ghetto inmates)
    labour. Within six months, in November 1941 the Nazis had set up the Lwów Ghetto using Jewish forced labour. All Jews had to give up their homes and move...
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  • The Battle of Lwów was a World War II battle for the control over the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) between the Red Army and the invading Wehrmacht...
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    Commonwealth) the city was known as Lwów and became the capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, which included five regions: Lwów, Chełm (Ukrainian: Kholm), Sanok...
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  • its large number of suicide jumpers A bridge in Nazi Germany-operated Lwów Ghetto (current Ukraine) during World War II, under which thousands of Jews...
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    Lwów Eaglets (Polish: Orlęta lwowskie) is a term of affection that is applied to the Polish child soldiers who defended the city of Lwów (Ukrainian: L'viv)...
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  • The Lwów Uprising (Polish: powstanie lwowskie) was an armed insurrection by the Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) underground forces of the Polish resistance...
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    The Lwów school of mathematics (Polish: lwowska szkoła matematyczna) was a group of Polish mathematicians who worked in the interwar period in Lwów, Poland...
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    During the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 the city of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine) was attacked by the forces of Alexander Ilyich Yegorov. Since mid-June 1920...
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  • In Darkness (2011 film) (category Lwów Ghetto)
    Polish city of Lwów. He used his knowledge of the city's sewer system to shelter a group of Jews who had escaped from the Lwów Ghetto during the Holocaust...
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    Synagogue of Lwów. He also served as director of scientific Tanakh institute locally. Following the Nazi Operation Barbarossa and the conquest of Lwów, he was...
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    School of Mathematics Battle (1939) Massacre of Lwów professors Lviv pogroms (1941) Lwów Ghetto Lwów Uprising Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive (1944) Sknyliv...
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    city in interwar Poland and at the time named Lwów. In 1925, the ashes of one of the unknown defenders of Lwów were transferred to the Tomb of the Unknown...
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    Battle of Lwów or Battle of Lesienice or Battle of Lviv refers to a battle between the armies of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ottoman Empire that...
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    Archduke Charles Louis. In 1888 the Polish architect and a graduate of the Lwów Technical Academy Władysław Sadłowski was selected to design a new station...
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    The Battle of Lwów (sometimes called the Siege of Lwów) was a World War II battle for the control over the Polish city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) between...
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    The Battle of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) (in Polish historiography called obrona Lwowa, the Defense of Lwów) took place from November 1918 to May 1919 and was...
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    Benedykt Ziemilski (category Lwów Ghetto)
    individual brought them some mail from their old apartment. The mail from Lwów contained two official letters in German, one of which was from Majdanek...
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    of Forestry (Lwów) with Politechnical School. 28 June 1920: Adoption of the New Statute and renaming the Polytechnical School into Lwów Polytechnic (Polish:...
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    Historya Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego, Lwów 1894. Franciszek Jaworski, Uniwersytet Lwowski. Wspomnienie jubileuszowe, Lwów 1912. Adam Redzik, Wydział Prawa...
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    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish: אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ, romanized: Ufshtand in Varshever Geto; Polish: powstanie w getcie warszawskim; German:...
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    The Sonderkommando was active in Lviv (see the Lwów Ghetto), Lutsk (the Łuck Ghetto), Rovno (Rovno ghetto), Zhytomyr, Pereyaslav, Yagotyn, Ivankov, Radomyshl...
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    The Lwów pogrom (Polish: pogrom lwowski, German: Lemberger Pogrom) was a pogrom perpetrated by Polish soldiers and civilians against the Jewish population...
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