30 Horrific Shocking Photos of the Lviv Pogroms in 1941
This video is is a series of photos of the Lviv pogrom of 1941. The city of Lvov (Lviv) in southeastern Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939, under the terms of the GermanSoviet Pact. There were over 200, 000 Jews in Lvov in September 1939; nearly 100, 000 were Jewish refugees from Germanoccupied Poland. The Germans subsequently occupied Lvov after the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The pogrom took place the first days of German occupation as a prelude to the total extermination of Lvov Jews. the scenes of street violence, beatings by stones, sticks, humiliation of women by public undressing, the humiliation in the form of washing sidewalks, marches on the knees and with hands up across the city, the scenes of brutal arrests of Jews in the streets by Ukranian Nazi militia, which escorted them to forced works in former NKVD prisons in the city. In those prisons after various beatings and humiliations, they were shot dead in the courtyards. The total number of
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