headstones Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/headstones/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:28:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png headstones Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/headstones/ 32 32 Jewish Traces in Lviv: Tombstones Turned to Pavement https://forgottengalicia.com/jewish-traces-in-lviv-tombstones-turned-to-pavement/ https://forgottengalicia.com/jewish-traces-in-lviv-tombstones-turned-to-pavement/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:01:35 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=2184 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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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/jewish-traces-in-lviv-tombstones-turned-to-pavement/feed/ 2 Vanished World: Galicia’s Jewish Cemeteries https://forgottengalicia.com/vanished-world-galicias-jewish-cemeteries/ https://forgottengalicia.com/vanished-world-galicias-jewish-cemeteries/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:04:33 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=3403 Galicia was once home to a large Jewish population. Before the war, Jews were the third most numerous ethnic group in the region, after Poles and Ukrainians, and all Galician cities and towns had vibrant Jewish communities. Much of this heritage was destroyed during the war and most of what […]

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