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Inspired by a 2011 movie, Ukrainian researchers have found the Lviv sewer where dozens of Jews escaped the Nazis

The researchers discovered how at least 20 Jews were able to remain alive in the gutter for more than a year among rats and worms during the Holocaust.

Ukrainian shop pulls costumes of Orthodox Jews in sidecurls

The atelier in Lviv, which used to be 30% Jewish, used the word “zhyd” to advertise its controversial get-up — a term some see as a slur.

Volunteers rescue Jewish headstones used to pave street in western Ukraine

There could be up to 100 headstones under the stretch of road in Lviv on a street where members of the Gestapo lived during Nazi rule.

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Ukraine to commemorate Reform synagogue destroyed by Nazis in Lviv

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Firebomb hurled at Ukrainian synagogue

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Ukrainian officials post footage of vandals defacing Holocaust memorial

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Ukraine city to hold festival in honor of Nazi collaborator whose troops killed Jews

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Bones unearthed during contested dig at former Jewish cemetery in Ukraine

Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler, right. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and Roman Kogan attending an event at the Lviv opera house on Nov. 6, 2016. (Photo: Boris Bukhman)

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Nearly 1,000 Jews gather in Ukrainian city that honors alleged Holocaust perpetrators

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Lviv Ghetto memorial vandalized in anti-Semitic attack

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