Lviv Jewish cemeteries

The Jewish cemeteries in Lviv are different old Jewish cemeteries in the Ukrainian city ​​of Lviv :

Jews in 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%

Destroyed tombstones on the site of the former old cemetery

• 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

• Lviv # Second World War

Web links

Commons : Lviv Jewish Cemeteries  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine. (2005). In it: Figs. 14 to 19 on pages 20, 25 and 26 (page counts on the bottom of each page )

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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)