Zolochiv

Zolochiv (Ukrainian Золочів; Russian Золочев / Zolochev; Polish Zloczow ) is a Ukrainian city with more than 23,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Lviv Oblast (Lviv ) and is located east of the district capital of Lviv. The nearest large city is Lviv.

History

From 1772 the town belongs to Galicia under Austrian rule, and quickly became an administrative seat for the first district office and from 1850 the seat of a district team. 1869 was the place with the construction of a railway line (now Krasne -Odessa railway line ) a railway station.

1918, the city came back to Poland and was in 1921 in the province Tarnopol, was occupied during World War II, first in 1939 by the Soviet Union and from 1941 from Germany.

In June 1941, the NKVD murdered about 700 prisoners in the local jail, which was set up in the citadel above the town. After the withdrawal of Soviet troops and the march through the German Wehrmacht SS units led with the assistance of Ukrainian Nationalists by a pogrom of the Jewish inhabitants of the city. Estimates from several hundred up to two thousand people murdered.

Since 1945, the place is a part of the Soviet Union and became the Ukrainian SSR connected, it is since 1991 part of independent Ukraine.

Twinning

Zolochiv is a sister city of the German city Schoningen.

Sons and daughters of the town

( The following personalities were born in Zolochiv. The listing is in chronological order by year of birth. Whether they had their future spheres in Zolochiv or not is irrelevant )

  • Weegee, Arthur Fellig actually born as Usher Fellig (1899-1968) American photographer.
  • Waclaw Świerzawski (* 1927), former bishop of Sandomierz
  • Roald Hoffmann ( born 1937 ), American Nobel laureate in chemistry
  • Naphtali Imber heart, Jewish poet
  • Jehiel Michael of Zloczow Hasidic rabbi
  • Moyshe - Leyb Halpern, jiddischsprachiger poet
  • Hussin Andrij, Ukrainian football player
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