Lviv

Lviv () is the capital city of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. 860,000 people live in Lviv.  2001 estimate. URL accessed on June 20, 2006 88% of the people living there are Ukrainian, 8% are Russian, and 1% are Polish. An extra 200,000 people commute to Lviv every day for work.

During the city's history, it was ruled by many countries. When part of Poland it was called Lwów (pronounced and sometimes spelled Lvov). In German, it was known as Lemberg, that was part of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and again under Nazi German occupation. From 1350 until 1772 it belonged to the Kingdom of Poland and from 1918 to 1939 to the Republic of Poland.

The mayor is Andriy Sadovyi (as of 2024).https://www.kyivpost.com/post/38423. Retrieved 2024-09-04 
 Pogrom 
On 30 June 1941, the Wehrmacht German officers occupied Lviv, Ukraine. The German name for Lviv is Lemberg. Persecution of Jews began almost immediately, within just hours of the occupation, but ultimately a month later, a full-blown pogrom took place in Lviv. About 3000 to 7000 Jews were forced out of their homes, forced to do all sorts of forced labor, and were treated with great violence and also were humiliated and mocked greatly for the German officers' amusement and entertainment, in various forms. They were then sent in groups to newly-built Lwów Ghetto, and were forced to live in barracks, and used for forced labor, and then just mostly shot and killed there, in dug-up pits.

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