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When Rachel Stevens and Jack Wright were taking a picture of a memorial plaque to Borys Orach during one of their first walks around Lviv, they had no idea about this person. In January, 2018, they arrived in Lviv and started discovering the Jewish heritage of the city for themselves.

Soon after, they were shown the guide "Jewish Lviv: 100 Addresses", first published by the charity foundation Hesed Arieh in 2010. The map is an important part of the exploration of Jewish past of the city. Following a lengthy period of silence and manipulation, the journey of discovery started thirty years ago due to the caring compassion of some Lviv citizens. Borys Orach, the author of the map, was one of them. He was a teacher and an activist of the Jewish community.

Thus, an idea was born to add a new dimension to the map and use it to tell about the places of Borys Orach that have become part of the present-day Jewish Lviv.

In 2018 the Center published the digital map with the updated transliteration of street names, titles, and proper names in Latin characters, since during translation from the Ukrainian version they lost their original spelling. Some clarifications and additions about the dates and names were suggested by Dr. Serhiy Kravtsov, architectural historian, and also a student of Borys Orach at school No 52. The text about Borys Hryhorovych was prepared by Galina Gavrilina, also his student who helped to publish all of his books.

Hence, the work of this enthusiast received its second life due to efforts of his students. The digital map was presented on May, 24, 2018, as part of the exhibition by Rachel Stevens "A Key to the City: Three Ways of Visualizing Jewish Heritage in Lviv"

Borys Orach

Borys Hryhorovych Orach is a well-known personality for Lviv. During the 90 years of his life, he managed to do extremely much. Some remembered him as a prominent teacher of mathematics, others think of him as a connoisseur of the history of Galician Jews, while others recall him as a veteran of sports or an active member of Jewish community of Lviv.

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Borys was born in a Polish town of Radom in 1921. In the early years, he studied in cheder (primary school), later, he graduated from a Jewish humanitarian gymnasium with excellence. In order to support his family, he was giving private lessons since he was 10. He was fond of music and literature. He loved violin, he knew many Jewish and Polish songs, composed poems and short stories. He mastered Hebrew in the gymnasium and in the youth Zionist organization, and later learnt English and French on his own. He had a dream to compile an encyclopaedic reference book. He spent long hours in libraries to collect the necessary information.

Borys Orach (on the left) together with his brother

In September, 1939, the occupation of Poland started. Fleeing from the persecutions of Jews, Borys Orach got to Soviet Lviv, and later to Leningrad. There, he entered the technological institute of light industry but in summer, 1941, he submitted an application with the request to send him to the front. He was wounded in the war. He was awarded with the Order of the Great Patriotic war II degree, and the medals.

After the war, there were no family members left in Radom, as his father, mother, and three brothers perished in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Thus Borys returned to Lviv. Here he graduated from the pedagogical institute and dedicated the next 50 years of his life to teaching mathematics. He did manage to make his contribution in making the school No 52 named after Lobachevskyi with a special focus on mathematics widely known beyond Ukraine. Borys Hryhorovych's students were receiving awards at mathematic competitions of different levels. Borys Orach described the history and contemporary reality of the school No 52 in his book "Seeding the wisdom, the kindness, and the eternal..." (2002).

Borys Orach was head of the city school for the craft of teaching for 30 years. There, he shared his experience with math teachers from all over Ukraine. His text-books are valuable pedagogical contributions. These are "To Raise Efficiency of Mathematics Teaching at Schools" (2006), "Key Parts of the School Mathematics Curriculum" (2011).

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Borys Hryhorovych was doing sports until the last days of his life, even at the age of 90. He participated in international and national super-marathons, such as Lviv-Kyiv and The Road of Life in Leningrad.

In 1999, the President of Ukraine presented to Borys Hryhorovych Orach the Order "For Bravery" ІІІ degree.

Borys Hryhorovych was one of the first to actively engage with the revival of Jewish life in Lviv. He was the deputy head of the Sholem Aleichem Society of Jewish Culture, editorial board member of the "Shofar" newspaper, active member of B'nei B'rit "Leopolis", volunteer of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Charity "Hesed-Arieh", member of the board of the section of Jewish war and labour veterans. He conducted guided tours along Jewish sites in Lviv and the region. He created a guidebook map "Jewish Lviv. 100 Addresses." For his 90th birthday, Borys Orach was awarded an honorable title "Merited Activist of the Jewish Council of Ukraine."

At the same time, he was conducting his own research: he collected data in archives and libraries about the prominent Jews of Lviv and other places in Ukraine and Poland. His research efforts resulted in a book "Essays. Articles. Research" (2013, compiled by Galina Gavrilina). The collection included publications on the Holocaust, Judaica, the history of Lviv, stories about the personalities of Galician and Jewish culture, reflections of the author based on his own experience published in the period between 2001-2010 in the "Shofar" newspaper (published by the Sholem Aleichem Society), newsletter of "Hesed-Arieh" and the "Snob" magazine. The list of Borys Orach’s achievements is not exhaustive.

In 2011, this wise and radiant personality passed away. However, the grateful students do not forget their Teacher. In 2014, to commemorate Borysh Orach, they installed a memorial plaque to Borys Orach on the façade of the school 52. In 2017, a tree was planted in the Ruchama forest in Israel in honor of Borys Orach.
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Jewish Lviv. 100 addresses

Address numbering remains the same according to the original map.

Its scanned version displayed on the left side of the screen. Descriptions on the right side are grouped by its location on a map.

Hyperlinks to “Lviv Interactive” offer additional information about certain places.

1) Sianska St. 16 (Bożnicza)
Great Suburb Synagogue, 1632, architect Jacomo Madlena. Destroyed during the Holocaust.

Note. The exact location of the Great Suburb Synagogue was on the other side of the Syanska street to the south from the point #1 on the scanned map. The exact location can be seen under the following link.

2) Sianska St. 4 (Bożnicza)
Hassidic synagogue "Hassidim Schul". Destroyed during the Holocaust.

3) Sianska St. 5 (Bożnicza)
Beit HaMidrash - jeshiva, library, 1793. Destroyed during the Holocaust.

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4) Vuhilna St. 3 (Węglana)

The synagogue of "new" hassidic "Jakov Glanzer Schul", 1842 - 1844. Since 1991 - Society for Jewish Culture named after Sholem Aleichem and the editorial office of the newspaper "Shofar".

Borys Orach, as an activist of the Society, gave over 100 lectures there on various topics.

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The newspaper published articles by Borys Orach. He used to write about the topics related to the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and the history of Lviv. He would cover prominent events in the current life of Jewish community, while his last publications Requiem for the Native City present important reflections on his experience. Due to this cooperation, Borys Orach met Borys Komskyi, a talented poet, an experienced journalist, the newspaper editor. Later, this meeting evolved into true friendship of men.
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5) Medova St. 3 (Miodowa)
Hassidic synagogue "Or schemesh". Destroyed during the Holocaust.

6) Corner of Sianska St. (Bożnicza) and Lazneva St. (Łazienna)
Hassidic synagogue "Bet Lechem", 1791. Destroyed during the Holocaust

7) Stary Rynok Sq. 14 (Stary Rynek)
The Progressive Synagogue, or the Tempel, 1840-1846, archietcts Johann Lewicki and Johann Salzmann. Destroyed during the Holocaust

21) Mulyarska St. 2a (Starotandetna)
House for homeless named after Runa Reitmanowa, 1930-1932, architect Marek Weitz. During German occupation - the first premises of Judenrat. Today - it is the library of Foreign Literature.

Note. It is Lesya Ukrainka's Central Municipal library today.

86) Khmelnytskoho St. 6 (Żółkiewska)
Factory of B. Blumental which supplied Polish army with canned food.

87) Khmelnytskoho St. 11 (Żółkiewska)
Jewish dramatic club named after Peretz.

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8) Crossroad of Fedorova St. (Blacharska) and Ruska str.
"Jewish gate," the entrance to the ghetto at the beginning of the XVIth century. Today destroyed.

9) Staroyevreyska St. 54 (Boimów)
Great City Synagogue, 1799-1801. It was built to replace the old synagogue (1553). Destroyed during the Holocaust.

10) Staroyevreyska St. 41 (Boimów)
Beit HaMidrash - jeshiva, the city library. Destroyed during the Holocaust.

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Space of Synagogues, 2016

Borys Orach, 2008:

“Hoping for the mercy of the Lord, let us believe that the Golden Rose synagogue will rise from ashes. It would be a landmark event for the entire society, not only for Lviv.”
"Золотая Роза" - правда и вымысел". Хесед-Ар'є. - 2008. - №9-11 (Борис Орач. Очерки. Статьи. Исследования. Львів, 2013) A tour by Borys Orach near the Golden Rose synagogue. Today, the Space of Synagogues site has one of the stones with an excerpt from his memories about Lviv in 1939.
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11) Staroyevreyska St. 34 (Boimów)
Shlomo Friedman`s house with the image of the municipal coat of arms - a sign of eternal rent.

12) Crossroad of Fedorova St. (Blacharska) and Staroyevreyska St. (Boimów)
Chaim Czopownik`s house (the house with mascaron ("the fifth lion")

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13) Fedorova St. 29 (Blacharska)
Former hospital of the Jewish community, built by Mordechaj Nachmanowicz at the beginning of the XVIIth century.

14) Fedorova St. 27 (Blacharska)
Nachmanowiczs` family synagogue ("Golden Rose", "Turei Zahav"), 1582, architect Paweł Szczęśliwy (Paulus Italus). Destroyed during the Holocaust. The façade is decorated with the memorial plate in honor of David Halev.

15) Arsenalna St. 3 (Za Zbrojownią)
"Tarbut" - Jewish cultural-educational society. Women`s school named after Abraham Kohn

16) Arsenalna St. 7 (Za Zbrojownią)
Ritual bathhouse (mikveh), at certain period - communal Jewish prison

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17) Lemkivska str., 4 (Hermana)
Shelter for Impoverished Jewish Merchants, founded by Jakub and Laura Herman (1927)

18) Lemkivska St. 6 (Hermana)
Former house of the artist and stage designer Zygmunt Balk (1873-1941) and his son Henryk Balk (1899- 1941)

19) Lemkivska St. 8 (Hermana)
Hostel of vocational school named after Tobiasz Askenase.

88) Corner of Tatarska St. and Zamkova St. (Zamkowa)
The first in Galicia dancing hall and restaurant "Under magpie".

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20) Chornovola av. (Pełtewna)

Monument to 136000 victims of Lviv ghetto 1941 - 1943. Sculptors Luisa Shterenstein, Yuliy Shmukler, architect Volodymyr Plihivskiy. Erected in 1992 Courtesy of Rachel Stevens

The Holocaust was the most painful topic for Borys Orach – “The Wound That Will Never Heal.” He has been trying to find the graves of his family but only managed to find out the following by the end of his life: “The Yad Va-shem museum has copies of Transportation Lists from the Radom district to the Auschwitz Birkenau camp compiled on the basis of the archive materials from the museum “Auschwitz Camp” (Poland). I found out from the archive materials that my father, my mother, and the youngest brother were killed in Auschwitz on June, 2-3, 1943, while my 20-year-old brother Chaim Jacob worked for another year and was killed on May, 13, 1944.”

“For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity, where the Nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women and children mainly Jews from various countries of Europe. Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940-1945.” These words are carved on the English memorial plaque at the entrance to the former concentration camp. Реквием по родному городу. Шофар. – 2010. — № 9—12 (Борис Орач. Очерки. Статьи. Исследования. Львів, 2013)
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22) Kulisha St. 23-25a (Słoneczna)
Jewish theater "Colosseum" in the former passage of Herman family, 1898 - 1900, architect Michał Fechter and Artur Schleyen

23) Kulisha St. 1-3 (Słoneczna)
Prewar inscriptions in Yiddish and Polish of the former big Jewish store are renovated on its façade.

24) Shpytalna St. (Szpitalna)
Department store "Magnus", 1912-1913, architect Roman Feliński. Commissioned by Dr. S. Fränkel and engineer Skibniewski. An example of modern architecture.

25) Kotliarska St. 1 (Kotlarska)
Artistic-memorial plate devoted to Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) who lived in this house in 1906. Sculptor Pesah (Petro) Fleet (1935-2009)

26) Kotliarska St. 8 (Kotlarska)
House with the inscriptions in Yiddish and Polish on its façade.

27) Tamanska St. 10 (Alembeków)
Former house of the public figure, attorney and publicist dr. Gershon Zipper (1868-1941)

28) Tamanska St. 11 (Alembeków) Jewish industrial and state school named after Tadeusz Czacki, 1891, architect Alfred Kamienobrodzki. Today an educational-technological college

29) Tamanska St. 14 (Alembeków)
Former house of the artist-impressionist Erno Erb (1878-1942)

30) Bazarna St. 1 (Schlejchera)
Old Jewish cemetery of the 15th-mid 19th centuries. Since 1855, an Open-air museum. Destroyed during the Holocaust. Today, Central Krakivskyi market is here.

31) Sholom-Aleichema St. 11 (Bernsteina)
Craftsmen`s society "Jad Charuzim" (heb. yad harutsim, "hand of the diligent," Proverbs 12:24 ) with the theatrical-concert hall, 1896, architect Maurycy Silberstein. Today a bank

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32) Sholom-Aleichema Str., 12 (Bernstein)
Before the war, it was the Board of Jewish religious community of Lviv (1899) and Jewish museum (1934), 1899, architect Antoni Fleischl.

It belongs today to the Jewish religious community Beis Aharon ve-Yisrael. Since 1995 it was an office of "B'nai-B'rith Leopolis" charity fund named after Emil Domberger and International Center for Holocaust Research in Lviv named after Aleksander Schwartz.

Borys Orach memoirs:

"When in October, 1939, I arrived to Lviv with a refugee status from Poland, my first intention was to visit the Jewish Museum I have read about multiple times in Jewish newspapers published in my native town of Radom. The gate was locked but the attendant on duty who came out after my persistent bell ringing strictly stated that the Board stopped their operations, that the Museum was closed, and no entry was allowed. It took much inventive effort (let’s leave out the details) to convince the attendant to let me in. He took me to the second floor – the door to the conference room was open. There were still portraits of the community members on the walls. [...] At the entrance to the museum, on the 3 rd floor, there was a plate stating that the Museum was open for visitors from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. all days of the week, except for national holidays, free entry... There was only one person in the Museum facility, Maximilian Goldstein leaning over the papers at the desk..."
"По следам галицких евреев: Во Львове возрождается Еврейский Музей". Шофар. - 2005. - №8 (Борис Орач. Очерки. Статьи. Исследования. Львів, 2013)
Courtesy of Rachel Stevens

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33) Dzherelna St. 23 (Źródlana)
Before the war it was "Piekarnia Kulikowkiego" of Natan Schwart. Maryan Hemmar recollected that "here they baked the tastiest bread in the city".

34) Rappoporta St. 8
Former Jewish hospital (The Israelite Hospital, fundation by Maurycy Lazarus (1832-1912), 1898-1902, architect Kazimierz Mokłowski. Today the 3rd clinical hospital

35) Rappoporta St. 4-6
Jewish almshouse. Today the hospital dispensary

36) Kleparivska St. 11a (Kleparowska)
Jewish merchant's gymnasium, 1938, architect Józef Thorn

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37) Hohola St. 17 (Zygmuntowska)

From 1919 until 1939 three Jewish gymnasiums were there: mens humanitarian, womens humanitarian, men`s classical. General Secondary School 52 named after Mykhailo Lobachevskyy, with in-depth learning of mathematics.
Borys Orach was teaching at this school from 1967 till 2001.
December 12, 1972. Author - Leonid Soroka

Borys Orach described the past and the present in a book "Seeding the wisdom, the kindness, and the eternal..."(2002).

In 2014, the grateful students installed two memorial plaques: one on the school façade, authored by a Lviv sculptor Olena Yevtiukhina, and another one inside, made by a Lviv artist Viktoriya Kovalchuk.
Courtesy of Galina Gavrilina and Rachel Stevens

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38) Ohienka St. 18/18a (Krasickich)
In 1919-1939, Dr. Adela Karp-Fuchsowa's private gymnasium and dormitory, 1911, architect Zygmunt Kędzierski. Today, it is the Institute of post-graduate education.

39) Ohienka St. 20 (Krasickich)
The former house of physician and writer Maurycy Rapoport (1808 - 1880)

40) Horodotska St. 35 (Kazimierzowska)
The former editorial office of Jewish newspaper "Nayer Morgen" ("New morning") published in Yiddish in 1936-1939. Editor - Mordechaj Rabinowicz.

41) Horodotska St. 45/47 (Kazimierzowska)
Jonasz Sprecher`s synagogue.

42) Lepkoho St. 10 (Brajerowska)
The former house of historian Szymon Askenazy (1867-1935)

43) Mentsynkoho St. 3 (Kołłątaja)
The former house of artist Otto Asker (1906-1983)

44) [Mentsynkoho St. 5 (Kołłątaja)]
Religious school "Aishel Tora." A lawyer, public and political figure Dr. Emil Sommerstein (1883-1957) lived here.

45) Hryhorenka Sq. 5, 7, 9 (Smolki)
Grüners` Passage of "Lviv Berdychiv". Before the war house had internal courtyard with numerous Jewish stores.

46) Corner of Mentsynskoho St. 12 (Kołłątaja) and Horodotska St. (Kazimierzowska)
Pharmacy "Under the Golden Lion". Belonged to Szymon Hay.

47) Mentsynskoho St. 8 (Kołłątaja)
Jewish merchants' gymnasium, 1912-1914, architect Józef Piątkowski. Today the Economics and business college.

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48) Hnatiuka St. 11 (Jagiellońska), courtyard
Before 1941 it was the new Jewish theater, 1939, architect Daniel Kalmus Courtesy of Rachel Stevens

49) Hnatiuka St. 11 (Jagiellońska)
The former house of the public figure, attorney Emil Byk (1845-1906), poet Marian Hemar (Jan Marian Hescheles, 1901-1972) - the singer of Lviv - "the city of seven hills and the most beautiful women".

50) Hnatiuka St. 15 (Jagiellońska)
Before the war photographer Marek Münz worked here (1878-1937) - the founder and the head of Association of photographers of Lviv region.

51) Hnatiuka St. 20 (Jagiellońska)
Grüners` house, 1910, architects Ferdynand Kassler and Roman Feliński, sculptor - Zygmunt Kurczyński. The former house of lawyer Maurycy Allerhand (1868-1942) and the pianist Stefan Askenazy (1896 - 1985)

52) Nalyvaika St. 5 (Rzeźnicka)
Ritual bathhouse (mikveh), library of Jewish community.

53) Nalyvaika St. 6 (Rzeźnicka)
Hotel "Splendid", 1912, architect Józef Awin. After the war hotel "Prykarpatskyy", "Kyiv".

54) Nalyvaika St. 11 (Rzeźnicka)
The main chancellery of the rabbi`s office

55) Nalyvaika St. 17 (Rzeźnicka)
The former house of scientist, the head of the rabbinical court in Lviv, Izak Schmelkes (1827-1905)

56) Tyktora St. 5 (Św. Stanisława)
Jewish pedagogical institute's secondary school named after Abraham Kohn. Founded in 1844 and existed until 1939.

57) Tyktora St. 3 (Św. Stanisława), corner of Tyktora St. аnd Kurbasa St. 10 (Rejtana)
Before the war, it was a famous pub and dairy store. Today the post-war plaster has been removed and prewar inscriptions in Yiddish, Polish and German have been revealed.

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58) Sichovykh Strlitsiv St. 12 (Trzeciego Maja)
House of Mojżesz Rohatyn (1911-1912). Before 1934 there were the coffee-bar "Ritz", "Louvre", "Renaissance". After the war the restaurant "Festivalnyy", today - the café "Puzata Khata."

59) Sichovykh Strlitsiv St. 13 (Trzeciego Maja)
From 1900 until 1939 the house belonged to the family of attorney and politician Nathan Löwenstein von Opoka (1859-1929).

60) Kostiushka St. 3 (Kościuszki)
At the beginning of the 20th century, the house (1906, architect Tadeusz Obmiński) belonged to the rabbi and historian Jecheskel Karo (1844-1915).

61) Krushelnytskoi St. 1 (Kraszewskiego)
The Buber home. From 1914 until 1939: Salomon Buber (1827-1906), a bank auditor, scholar, and public figure, Martin Buber (1878 - 1965), a philosopher and Jewish historian. Also the former house of Leon Reich (1879-1929), the attorney and figure of Zionist movement

Note. From 1916 until 1935 also Karl Buber lived here.

62) Doroshenka St. 19 (Sykstuska)
Until 1939 - it was the printing house of Artur Goldman (1909, architect Włodzimierz Podhorodecki).

63) Doroshenka St. 23 (Sykstuska)
The Old Post-office, the possession and winter residence of the Nierenstein and Lilien families, the first Lviv photo studio of Józef Pohlman (1848). From 1907 until 1939 it was the store of the Mund brothers' ceramic factory.

64) Doroshenka St. 37 (Sykstuska)
Former editorial office of the Zionist newspaper "Wschód", editors Majer Bałaban and Leon Reich. On the ground floor - the pub "Maxim" of Zygmunt Menasches.

65) Bankivska St. 16 (Szajnochy)
The Ose Tow synagogue of the progressists. Rabbi Dr. David Kahane (1903-1998), who would be saved by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptysky during Holocaust, was its pre-war rabbi. The author of "Diary of Lviv ghetto" (Yoman getto lvov, 1978). Synagogue destroyed during the Holocaust.

66) Kopernyka St. 10 (Kopernika)
Editorial office of the newspaper in Yiddish "Lemberg Tagblat"

67) Kopernyka St. 19 (Kopernika)
Guardianship society over the immigrants to Eretz-Israel

68) Kopernyka St. 24 (Kopernika)
Jewish Central Immigration society

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69) Mitskevycha Sq. 1 (Mariacki)
Banking house "Schultz and Haies". 1909-1939

70) Mitskevycha Sq. 4 (Mariacki)
Book-store and typesetting of the Altenberg publishers at the hotel "European".Today - "Eximbank".

Note. The hotel and bookstore are mistakenly located at Mitskevycha Sq. 5. They actually existed within a near building highlighted in yellow on the map

71) Mitskevycha Sq. 5 (Mariacki)
Jewish People`s University named after Albert Einstein

Note. The University building was located in a passage called Galeria Mariacka. Although the address is

correct, marker 71 is mistakenly placed at Mitskevycha Sq. 8. The correct location of this building is where number 70 is shown.

72) Mitskevycha Sq. 8 (Mariacki)
"Cafe Monopol" of F.Heskel, which was remembered by Sholem Aleichem in his novel "Wandering Stars".

Note. The cafe was located in a previous building on this site.

73) Beryndy St. 3 (Kilinskiego)
Banking house "Sokal & Lilien", 1898-1916. New building by Michał Ulam's firm, 1909.

74) Shevchenka av. 7 (Akademicka)
The house in which there lived the artist Fryderyk (Fryc) Kleinman (1897-1943). Architect Ferdynand Kassler, 1929

75) Halytska Sq. 15 (Halicki)
Galician Mortgage Bank, for 4 decades headed by Maurycy Lazarus (1832-1912), who financed the construction of the Israelite Hospital in Rapoporta St. Today - the bank "Dnister"

Note. An office building today.

76) Kniazia Romana St. 10 (Batorego)
Jakub Ungar`s book-store (1894-1939)

Note. Presumably, the name was Jakub Ungar's Bookstore, according to the 1913 Lviv address book.

77) Kniazia Romana St. 3 (Batorego)
Former gymnasium where Martin Buber studied. Today it is one of the buildings of Lviv Polytechnic University.

78) Pekarska St. 9 (Piekarska)
Vocational school and boarding school for Jewish girls named after Dr. Cecylia Klaftenowa (1920-1939). Upper floor added by architect Józef Awin. Today it is a technical school.

79) Pidvalna St. 3 (Podwale)
From 1919 until 1939 former editorial office and publishing house of the Jewish newspaper in Polish "Chwila". Editor Henryk Hescheles (1886-1941)

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80) Rynok Sq. 32 (Rynek)
Filip Zipper`s department store

Note. The cafe was located in a previous building on this site.

81) Rynok Sq. 45 (Rynek)
"Atlas": restaurant which before WWII was the place for meeting of Lviv`s bohemia.

82) Shevska St. 12 (Trybunalska)
Restraunt of Szymon Töpfer, visited by the artistic elite of the city. Decorated with the sculptures by Hartman Witwer.

83) Virmenska St. 3 (Ormiańska)
The first publishing house of the Bodek family (1850-1939)

84) Corner of Virmenska str., 2 (Ormiańska) and Teatralna St. (Rutowskiego)
Jeweller Baruch Dornhelm (1858-1928) lived here at the turn of the 20th century.

85) Danylo Halytskyi Sq. 4 (Strzelecki)
The house of Jewish orphans at the Society of Jewish women named after Róża Melzerowa, 1920, architect Ferdynand Kassler. Today, educational establishments of Shevchenkivskyy district.

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93) Shevchenka St. 34 (Janowska)
Boarding school for the orphans named after Izaak Aron and Klara Rosenstein, 1894, architect Alfred Kamienobrodzki.

94) Yeroshenka St. (Pilichowska)
New Jewish cemetery. 1855-1939. Destroyed during the Holocaust. Emil Byk, Maurycy Lazarus, Jecheskel Karo, Abraham Korkis, Leon Reich, Gerszon Zipper and others are buried here.

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95) Shevchenka St. 134 (Janowska)
Before the war this was the Steinhaus Milling Machines facility. Since August 1941 it was the camp of enforced labor, later the concentration camp "Yanovska".

Note. This name of the camp is usually present in survivors' memory. The official name - Zwangsarbeitslager Janowska/Lemberg-Janowska - comes from the street, where the camp was located and which led to the town of Janów (Ivano-Frankove today). Although officially it was a forced labour camp, conditions of detention were similar to those in Nazi concentration camps, including mass murders of mostly Jews.

"I would think: when would they establish in Lviv a museum of Janowska camp where over 200 thousand prisoners were murdered? It is the only former Nazi concentration camp in Europe that still has no museum or any memorial. The last prisoners of the camp are leaving this world, the last eye-witnesses of the Holocaust".
Наша судьба – вам предостережение. Шофар – 2007 — №3—4. (Борис Орач. Очерки. Статьи. Исследования. Львів, 2013)
Borys Orach and Aleksander Schwartz. International Center for Holocaust Research in Lviv was named after him. He was one of the camp prisoners who survived.
Courtesy of Galina Gavrilina

96) Kovcha St. (Winnica)
Courtesy of Rachel Stevens

"The Valley of Death" - "The sands" (Piaski) and the sand-pit behind the Yanovska concentration camp where prisoners were shot dead. The total numbers of the diseased - 200 000 people, the most of who were Jews. Today, there is memorial plate near the entrance.

Note. The scale of killings in Janowska concentration camp is difficult to define. Data mentioned on the map probably come from reports of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes. These outlined the official narrative about the tragedy based on the approximate Jewish population of Lviv in 1941. At the same time, Soviet official materials don’t mention that victims were predominantly Jewish.

According to the different assumptions of historians, the camp was a site for the killing of 35-80 thousand people. As Tarik Cyril Amar notes, “the fact that fewer Holocaust victims were killed directly in Yanivska camp than initially estimated made no difference to the total number of victims from Lviv or, in general, the Distrikt Galizien.

Borys Orach and Jakiv (Jakub) Honigsman, an author of one of the first books about the history of Janowska concentration camp.
Courtesy of Galina Gavrilina

On September, 2, 2018, in the Piaski ravine, there was a commemorative ceremony to honour the victims of Janowska concentration camp, and a memorial concert.
Courtesy of Roman Baluk

Janina Altman (Hescheles) was sent to the Janowska camp as a 10-year-old girl. She managed to escape eventually. In 2018, along with her grandson (on the right), she came to Lviv to commemorate the camp victims.
Courtesy of Roman Baluk

97) Shevchenka St. (Janowska)
Railway station "Kleparów". Jews were deported from here to the death camp in Bełżec. Memorial plate is on the eastern side of the building.

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89) Anhelovycha St. 26a (Stroha)
Academic (students) house for Jewish youth, 1909. Architect Alfred Zachariewicz, with contribution by Józef Awin

90) Anhelovycha St. 28a (Stroha)
Jewish industrial gymnasium for the boys named after Abraham Korkis, 1925-1930, architect Ferdynand Kassler.

91) Anhelovycha St. 30a (Stroha)
Shelter for poor widows.

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92) Mikhnovskykh St. 4 (Leszczyńskiego)

Acting synagogue "Cori Gilod" (heb. tsori gil'ad, "the balm of Gilead", 1924, architect Albert Kornblüth, murals by Maksymilian Kugel. It was completely reconstructed and restored in 2008. Courtesy of Rachel Stevens

Since 1989 the building belongs to the Jewish community Beis Aharon V’Yisrael.

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98) Novyi Svit St. 15 (Nowy Świat)
The house where Maksymillian Goldstein lived with his family until spring of 1942. His Judaica collection was located here.

99) Yefremova St. 4 (Mączyńskiego)
The building belonged to Ostap Ortwin (real name - Oscar Katzenellenbogen) (1876- 1942) - a literary critic, head of the society of men of letters.

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100) Kotlyarevskoho Str., 30

All-Ukrainian Jewish Charitable Foundation "Hesed-Arieh", the museum "Tracing Galician Jews". Courtesy by Rachel Stevens

Borys Orach presents the map "Jewish Lviv: 100 Addresses". It was Hesed-Arieh who supporded publishing of both editions of the map in 2010 and 2016.
Courtesy of Galina Gavrilina

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We encourage you to share your memories and materials about Borys Orach that can be published on this map. Please contacts us: lia@lvivcenter.org

Acknowledgments

Digital map has been prepared by a joint effort of:
Jack Wright, Rachel Stevens, Galina Gavrilina, Olha Lidovska, Oleksandr Tyron, Yaroslava Drutsa, Olha Zarechnyuk, Taras Nazaruk.

Pictures come from collections of Galina Gavrilina, Serhiy Kravtsov, Vadym Tader, Rachel Stevens, Lviv Interative project.

Translations by Svitlana Brehman.

This map was presented as a part of exhibition by Rachel Stevens "A Key to the City: Three Ways of Visualizing Jewish Heritage in Lviv" on May 24th, 2018.

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