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Forgotten Galicia

Forgotten Galicia

Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire

Tag: Julian Zachariewicz

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lviv: Architecture, Art, Innovation

July 6, 2020

From Lokalna Istoriya – written by Tetiana Kazantseva with photographs by Yuliya Korytska-Holub, original in Ukrainian Today Shevchenko Avenue in Lviv is very impressive with its luxurious residential and public buildings and cobblestone road along which runs a green promenade. Back in the eighteenth century, this is where the Poltva […]

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Forgotten Galicia

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Forgotten Galicia
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The old linden tree in Kryva Lypa (Crooked Linden) The old linden tree in Kryva Lypa (Crooked Linden) Passage. The passage was built in 1893-1895 by Efraim Hausmann, the owner of the nearby Grand Hotel.
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Lviv stairwell no. 2 with a mural resembling a vel Lviv stairwell no. 2 with a mural resembling a velarium - an awning used in ancient Rome to cover an amphitheater.
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Winter evening vibes in Lviv #wintervibes❄️ #a Winter evening vibes in Lviv
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Winter in Lviv #winterwibes❄️ #archidetails #a Winter in Lviv
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Today is Holodomor (Famine-Genocide of 1932-33) Re Today is Holodomor (Famine-Genocide of 1932-33) Remembrance Day. This is an account of my ancestors' experience of the famine, who lived in a village near Kremenchuk at the time, as told to me by two of my grandmother’s sisters, whom I visited in Kamianske in 2011:
“They [my grandmother who was 10 at the time and two of her sisters] were taken to their grandma's [Varvara] in Andrusivka so they would not die from hunger. Grandma was on her own, but she was very good at efficiently distributing food. She counted out all of her potatoes, and counted how many days there were until the new harvest, and knew how much they could eat per day so as not to die. She helped her neighbors a great deal. One neighbor came to her to kill her so he could take something to eat. She gave him a broth made from potato peels. And he left her alone.
Mykola lived across the road. He had five children, who went to work as shepherds. Some died along the way, while searching for food. His wife died. He had five children, but only two survived. Three died from hunger. Mykola was a hard worker. Grandma helped him a great deal, gave him corn, potatoes. In one day his grandmother and his last daughter died, and they hadn't even taken their last breaths when they were taken away. He was left alone. Then he too died from hunger.
Grandma helped him, always tried to have some extra food to give him.
The three sisters came to her, helped her pound corn. They kept things together well. And moreover, grandma continued to work as a proskurnytsia [a woman who bakes communion bread]. She baked a lot of communion bread. Not everyone could bake like her. People went to church and bought the bread and from that she earned money.
The famine was horrific. She saw people with swollen legs as they walked along the road, searching for some sort of small game, and sometimes they died on the way. When someone passed by, it was not known whether he or she would ever return…”
In the photo is Nastia, Varvara (my great-great-grandmother), and Aleksandra (my great-grandmother).
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Pre-WWII ghost sign in German, Ukrainian, and Poli Pre-WWII ghost sign in German, Ukrainian, and Polish marking the way to Kaiserwald. Kaiserwald (German for "the Emperor's Forest") is how locals have referred to the the forested hills just north-east of Lviv's Old Town since Emperor Joseph II visited the area in 1780 and spoke with admiration of its beauty.
Also note the new street sign - the street was recently renamed in honor of the Heroes of Mariupol.
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A wonderful painted stairwell in an unassuming sma A wonderful painted stairwell in an unassuming small residential building.
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