graves Archives - Forgotten Galicia

Jewish Traces in Lviv: Tombstones Turned to Pavement

Areta — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:01:35 +0000

When Lviv’s Lenin statue was toppled in 1990, fragments of Jewish tombstones were discovered in the foundation. This came as no surprise—it was a known fact that Nazi and Soviet authorities not only destroyed Lviv’s Jewish cemeteries, but also used the stone to pave the city. Lviv had two Jewish […]

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‘The Polish-Ukrainian Border Ran through the Marriage Bed’: Interethnic Marriages in Prewar Galicia

Areta — Thu, 17 May 2018 11:02:13 +0000

Interethnic marriages are common on territories where together with the indigenous population live representatives of other ethnic groups. Most often they are between ethnic groups that have close religious, linguistic, and cultural characteristics. “In interwar Galicia the largest number of such marriages was between Ukrainians and Poles, especially on the border of […]

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Buchach through the Glasses of Agnon

Areta — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:31:14 +0000

By Eugenia Senik Translated by Svitlana Bregman Everyone has his or her own Buchach. There are people who were born here and still live in the town. There are those who took their first steps on this land, but upon learning to walk fast and nimbly went far beyond their hometown. […]

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Searching for Traces of the Lipińskis in Oleskiy Region

Areta — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:19:25 +0000

My great (x5) grandparents Feliks and Tekla Lipiński moved to the village of Koltiv (Kołtów) from Lviv in 1811. Feliks was invited by Count Józef Baworowski to his estate in the countryside to conduct his court orchestra. The former landlords, the Starzeńskis, built a beautiful garden house on a high hill […]

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Karol Lipiński: Violinist and Conductor in Lviv’s First Theater

Areta — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:16:47 +0000

Lviv has always felt like my native town; however, in recent times none of my ancestors were from here. But in the last few years I discovered that my direct ancestors on two sides of my family (Polish and Austrian) did live in Lviv – though over 200 years ago, in […]

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Archaic Ukrainian Orthographies on Ancestral Graves

Areta — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:36:10 +0000

The oldest Ukrainian-language grave that I found of an ancestor is my great-great-great grandmother’s grave. She died in 1883 and is buried in the village Luchkivtsi, about an hour north east of Lviv. Anna’s husband was a German man named Venceslaus (Karlo) Kuhn. The etymological spelling used is called Maksymovychivka. […]

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Traces of the Past in Brody

Areta — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:38:13 +0000

In the 1800s and early 1900s (and probably earlier), many of my ancestors lived in Brody, including some Polish and German ancestors. However, since Brody was severely destroyed during the wars of the last century and because many of my relatives were forced to flee, very few traces of their […]

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