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I visited Lvove on June 26, 2003. Unfortunately, the information I gathered was not pleasant.
Although the village is now larger, I matched some of the streets to the 1877 map. However, the synagogue and the school were recently destroyed. There is now a store in place of the synagogue.
Written by Dmitry Abramson whose family came from Lvove
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I spoke to a few elders. One was a Jew who returned back after the war. Another had some Jewish ancestors. I went through the list of names and they remembered some names but not the others - nothing specific though.
I talked to the local people trying to find out what happened to the old cemetery. I was hoping to find the stones. Unfortunately, the cemetery did not survive. Most of it is now covered with road and newly built houses. The woman who lived in one of those houses told me that they were digging out bones as they were building it. The stones disappeared.
Later I called one of the families that wanted to help me out and they found out what happened to the stones. About 20 years ago there was a military exercise. When it ended and the stones were removed with the garbage.
Written by Dmitry Abramson whose family came from Lvove
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In 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union. In the first few months of the war the German army quickly advanced East occupying most of European Soviet Union, including Kherson. During that period all Kherson archives were destroyed.
On September 16, 1941 Germans murdered the entire Jewish population of Lvove. Everybody was forced outside the village to the place designated for killing livestock. The entire community was executed and buried. That day Lvove ceased to exist as a Jewish settlement.
At the site of the mass grave the local authorities built a small monument. The sign on the monument says:
For Victims
of Fascism
Executed
on September 16, 1941
from fellow-countrymen of Lvove
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In 1840 346 families from Courland, mainly from Mitau, Bausk, Hasenpoth and Goldingen migrated to Kherson guberniya.2 "The condition in which most of these colonists from Siberia and from the northwestern governments arrived at South Russia was pitiful. On the road many died, while others had to be placed in hospitals. The Courlanders - destined to be pioneers of colonization - were maltreated by the officials in charge during their voyage down the Dnieper, and were unable to begin work till the following year [. . .] [C]zar's promises to the Jews of Courland, both-written and verbal, had not been fulfilled. They found no houses, seeds, or agricultural implements. As soon as they had reached their destination the authorities of Kherson sent them to the old colonies. The result was that in a short time all the houses were overcrowded, and thousands had to camp in the open fields near the settlements. In Yanovka, for instance, two thousand settlers had to remain without shelter; and the provisions soon gave out. This famine brought on all kinds of sickness and finally caused the people to revolt. The authorities took strong repressive measures, the number of overseers was considerably increased, and the disturbers of the peace were severely punished. [. . .] [T]he governor-general of Kherson decided to found four new colonies; and he did his best to improve the wretched conditions of the old settlements. In June, 1841, he founded four colonies which, according to the wishes of the settlers, were called Novy Breslavl (New Breslau), Lvov (Lemberg), Romanov, and Novo Poltavka (New Poltavka), and settled there 700 families ("Vos." 1882, vol. 7). Kartzev's report of 1845 showed that there were 1,661 families (12,779 persons) in the Kherson colonies. Of these, 11,099 individuals were settled by the government; the rest, having paid for their farms, settled on their own account. From 1841 to 1845 the government expended 234-539 rubles in aiding Jewish colonists in Kherson. Courtesy of JewishGen
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