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Lviv Ghetto memorial vandalized in anti-Semitic attack

Gallons of green paint poured over site by unidentified vandals

Jews in Lviv, Ukraine in 1938 (YouTube screenshot)
Jews in Lviv, Ukraine in 1938 (YouTube screenshot)

A monument to the victims of the Holocaust-era ghetto of Lviv in western Ukraine was vandalized in what police suspect is an anti-Semitic incident.

Unidentified vandals on Friday threw several gallons of green paint on the memorial, which was erected in 1992 in memory of tens of thousands of Jews who were kept in the ghetto after the German invasion into Ukraine in 1941.

“We called law enforcement officers, and later maintenance services in the Shevchenko district to wash away the paint,” Lviv City Council spokesperson Roman Dach told the news website Fakty.

In 1939, approximately 110,000 Jews lived in Lviv, where they constituted one-third of the city’s total population, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Nearly all of them were murdered by German soldiers and local collaborators.

Throughout the summer of 1942, 50,000 Jews were sent to Belzec and Janowska, a camp within the city. In September, the remaining Jews were moved into a smaller ghetto, and in November, “unproductive” Jews were either sent to Janowska or to other camps to be murdered.

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