Lviv Jewish cemeteries
The Jewish cemeteries in Lviv are different old Jewish cemeteries in the Ukrainian city of Lviv :
year | Ges.-Bev. | Jews | proportion of |
---|---|---|---|
1857 | 55,800 | 22,586 | 40.5% |
1869 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. |
1880 | 110,000 | 30,961 | 28.2% |
1890 | 128,000 | 36,130 | 28.2% |
1900 | 160,500 | 44,258 | 27.6% |
1910 | 206,500 | 57,387 | 27.8% |
- Old graveyard. It was one of the oldest cemeteries in Eastern Europe . There are different statements about the oldest evidence of the cemetery. The years 1348, 1378, 1414 and 1480 are mentioned. Most grave stones date back to 1855. At that time a rampant cholera - epidemic , so that the cemetery finally was crowded and was closed. It was destroyed in 1947. Remains of destroyed tombstones from the old cemetery are still on the site of the former Jewish hospital in Rappoport-Straße.
- New cemetery. It was rebuilt in 1855. In 1943 it was destroyed during the German occupation.
- Small cemetery. This was newly laid out in 1872.
During the Nazi era , almost all of the city's Jewish residents - around 130,000 - were murdered.
The Lviv Jewish community does not currently have its own cemetery.
See also
Web links
Commons : Lviv Jewish Cemeteries - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Results of the censuses of the KK Statistische Central -ommission u. a., in: Anson Rabinbach : The Migration of Galician Jews to Vienna. Austrian History Yearbook, Volume XI, Berghahn Books / Rice University Press, Houston 1975, pp. 46/47 (Table III)