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Lviv, #Ukraine is a beautiful and welcoming city that I have spent a good deal of time in. These are a few of the places at risk.*

*Of course, human suffering is most important, but after that so is the loss of important cultural space.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Many of these are part of a recent emergence of interest/concern for Jewish and Holocaust history in Ukraine. They are likely particularly vulnerable if the Russians get to/attack Lviv.

This memory work will be massively set back by this war already sadly.

Monument and Jewish tombstones in what was the former Jewish cemetery.

Remains of the magnificent Golden Rose Synagogue, Lviv.

Memorial to the #Holocaust at the site of the Golden Rose Synagogue.

Memorial on the site of the Lviv reform synagogue.

Memorial to Soviet victims during occupation 1939-1941. This will most certainly be destroyed if the Russians get here.

The Kleparow train station near the #Janowska concentration camp that witnessed the deportation of the Jews of Galicia to the gas chambers.

The site of the #Janowska concentration camp where as many as 80,000 Jews were murdered.

The former #Janowska camp headquarters building.

Museum on the "Territory of Terror" dedicated to both the Nazi and Soviet period.

museumterror.com/en/home-2/

Memorial on the site of the Jewish ghetto in Lviv.

The archives in Lviv.

Plaque commemorating Raphael Lemkin, a Lviv resident who cointed the term "genocide" and was instrumental in making it a part of international law.

Potocki Palace, Lviv.

Now home to the Lviv Art Museum.

The wonderful Lviv Opera House

Shevchenko Museum of Folk Life and Architecture

lvivskansen.org

15th century Bernardine Monastery and Church

Armenian Cathedral

And, the Lviv Center for Urban History which does some really amazing work in the heritage sector and in advancing the history of Lviv.

If you are interested in ways to support Ukraine, here is some information from the amazing Lviv Center for Urban History.

lvivcenter.org/en/updates/how…

cc: @TarikCyrilAmar @CUH_Lviv @militaryhistori @steven_seegel