Place in Ukraine

What happened to the Jews in Galicia

51 events, 1515 AD to 1944 AD

16th century

  1. 1515 AD Trade restrictions on the Jews of Lemberg · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine
  2. 1581–1592 AD Diet trade restrictions on Jews passed and renewed · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine
  3. c. 1592 AD Start of anti-Jewish persecution in Lemberg after Jesuits arrive · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine

17th century

  1. 1603–1608 AD Jesuits confiscate the Lemberg synagogue · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine
  2. c. 1648–1649 AD Destruction of Tarnopol by Chmielnicki's forces · Ternopil (Tarnopol), Ukraine
  3. 1664 AD Ghetto established in Lemberg · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine

18th century

  1. 1728 AD Blood libel against the Jews of Lemberg · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine
  2. 1770 AD Confederates of Bar storm Tarnopol and massacre Jews · Ternopil (Tarnopol), Ukraine

19th century

  1. 1846 AD Limit on Jewish marriages abolished in Lemberg · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine

20th century

  1. 1911 AD Election terror against Jews; 20 Jews murdered in Drogobych · Drohobych, Ukraine
  2. 1914 AD Lwów pogrom (1914) · Lviv, Ukraine
  3. 1918 AD Lvov pogroms by Poles · Lviv, Ukraine
  4. 1918 AD Lwów pogrom of 1918 · Lviv (Lwów), Ukraine
  5. 1932 AD 1932 unrest in Lviv · Lviv, Ukraine
  6. 1941 AD 3,500 Jews killed at Zloczow; hundreds at Drohobycz · Zolochiv (Złoczów), Ukraine
  7. 1941 AD Antisemitic locals murder Jews in Lvov's streets · Lviv, Ukraine
  8. 1941 AD Drohobycz Ghetto · Drohobych, Ukraine
  9. 1941 AD Expulsion of about 20,000 Jews to Galicia · Hungary and elsewhere
  10. 1941 AD Five thousand Jews killed in Ternopol · Ternopil, Ukraine
  11. 1941 AD Ghetto established in District Galicia · Galicia, Ukraine
  12. 1941 AD Ghetto established in Lvov · Lviv, Ukraine
  13. 1941 AD Hundreds of Jews slaughtered at Drogobych prison · Drohobych, Ukraine
  14. 1941 AD Lviv pogroms · Lviv, Ukraine
  15. 1941 AD Lvov Jews ordered to wear the Yellow Star · Lviv, Ukraine
  16. 1941 AD Nachtigall battalion kills hundreds of Jews in Lvov after false rumor · Lviv, Ukraine
  17. 1941 AD Ninety Jews murdered at Dobromil · Dobromyl, Ukraine
  18. 1941 AD Stanisławów Ghetto · Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanisławów), Ukraine
  19. 1941 AD Tarnopol Ghetto · Ternopil (Tarnopol), Ukraine
  20. 1941 AD Three thousand Jews killed at Sheparovtse · Sheparivtsi, Ukraine
  21. 1941 AD Ukrainians beat at least 2,000 Jews to death in Lvov · Lviv, Ukraine
  22. 1941–1943 AD Lwów Ghetto · Lviv (Lwów), Ukraine
  23. 1942 AD 1,600 Buczacz Jews murdered at Belzec · Buchach, Ukraine
  24. 1942 AD 2,500 Drogobych Jews murdered at Belzec · Drohobych, Ukraine
  25. 1942 AD 600 Borislav Jews deported naked · Boryslav, Ukraine
  26. 1942 AD Chortkov Jews forced to watch the murder of their children · Chortkiv, Ukraine
  27. 1942 AD Chortkov Jews sent in freight cars to Belzec · Chortkiv, Ukraine
  28. 1942 AD Fifteen thousand Lvov Jews deported to Belzec · Lviv, Ukraine
  29. 1942 AD Fifty thousand Lvov Jews deported to Belzec · Lviv, Ukraine
  30. 1942 AD Four hundred Jewish intellectuals murdered in Kolomyia · Kolomyia, Ukraine
  31. 1942 AD German SS and police officials and their auxiliaries deport more than 76,000… · Galicia, Ukraine
  32. 1942 AD Kamenka Jews murdered at Belzec · Kamianka-Buzka, Ukraine
  33. 1942 AD Kolomyia Jews deported to Belzec; 1,000 killed in ghetto · Kolomyia, Ukraine
  34. 1942 AD Lvov Jews killed at Janówska and Piaski · Janowska, Ukraine
  35. 1942 AD Lvov ghetto liquidated · Lviv, Ukraine
  36. 1942 AD Olesko Jews deported to Belzec · Olesko, Ukraine
  37. 1942 AD SS guard kills Jadzia Beer on train to Belzec · Yavoriv, Ukraine
  38. 1942 AD Sambor Ghetto · Sambir, Ukraine
  39. 1942 AD Seven thousand Lvov Jews murdered at Janówska · Janowska, Ukraine
  40. 1942 AD Thousands of Stry Jews murdered at Belzec · Stryi, Ukraine
  41. 1943 AD Lemberg ghetto liquidated; 20,000 people · Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine
  42. 1944 AD Soviets reach Lwow Ghetto to find its Jews killed · Lviv (Lwów), Ukraine

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