For Anna Popovych, everything started during the war, when she together with her friends started collecting foodstuff and clothes for the UPA’s.
Helping Jews in occupied Ukraine was more often punished by death of rescuer himself and members of his/her family.
As of January 1, 1953, 165,000 Crimean Tatars lived in special settlements, and 50,000 thousand of them were children.
The transit prison № 25 was established in Lviv in the autumn of 1944 by the Soviet occupation administration, which replaced the Nazi one.
Lviv Ghetto was the largest in the territory of USSR and lasted from November 1941 to June 1943. On a European scale, the Lviv ghetto was second only to Warsaw and Lodz.