Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrei Sheptytsky, together with Ukrainian Greek Catholic clergy, saved nearly 150 Jews in Western Ukraine during the Holocaust. On Sheptytsky’s orders, these people were provided with false documents identifying them as Greek Catholics – as well as shelter.
Jewish Immigration to Palestine from Western Ukraine (1919–1939)
Posted On: April 9th, 2020
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Jews on Ukrainian Lands,
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Poland during the interwar period was one of the largest Jewish centers in the world. According to the 1921 census, it was home to 2,845,000 Jews, or over ten percent of the entire population.[1] Poland...
