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The Lviv massacre of 1941 began as Nazi troops entered the city. Jews were dragged from homes, humiliated, beaten, and murdered in pogroms fueled by propaganda and hatred. Einsatzgruppen and Ukrainian nationalists carried out mass killings, while thousands were later confined to the Lviv ghetto and deported to extermination camps. By liberation in 1944, fewer than 1 percent of Lviv’s Jews survived. This documentary uncovers the horrific fate of an entire community.  🎥 You can watch the full documentary about the Lviv massacre on World History TV, in the film 'The Forgotten Massacre of 1000s of Polish Jews: Lviv 1941’ 👉LINK in BIO 👈  #Lviv #OperationBarbarossa #HolocaustHistory #WW2History #WorldWar2 #JewishHistory #HolocaustEducation #GenocideHistory #EasternEuropeHistory #NaziCrimes #NeverForget #HistoryMatters #WWII #Einsatzgruppen #JewishLivesMatter #EuropeanHistory #DarkHistory #HistoryReels #OnThisDay #LearnFromHistory

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00:00The 22nd of June, 1941

00:04Under the codename Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union,

00:11its ally in the war against Poland. From the 30th of June, 1941, Nazi forces occupy Lviv,

00:19the largest city of eastern Galicia, which Stalin had annexed in September 1939 from Poland.

00:26At the beginning of the German occupation, the Jewish population of Lviv exceeds 200,000,

00:33half of whom are refugees from German-occupied Poland. In the weeks that follow, Jews are beaten,

00:40tortured, and subjected to mass executions. Shockingly, the massacres are not carried out

00:46solely by Germans, but also by Ukrainian nationalists and local youth.

00:51By the time Soviet forces liberate Lviv in July 1944, more than 99% of the Jewish population is wiped

01:01out.

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Pogroms, Propaganda & Mass Murder - Lviv 1941 – A Community Destroyed

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