In 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union. In the first few months of the war the German army quickly advanced East occupying most of European Soviet Union, including Kherson. During that period all Kherson archives were destroyed.

On September 16, 1941 Germans murdered the entire Jewish population of L'vove. Everybody was forced outside the village to the place designated for killing livestock. The entire community was executed and buried. That day L'vove ceased to exist as a Jewish settlement.

Holocaust Monument in L'vove

At the site of the mass grave the local authorities built a small monument. The sign on the monument says in Russian:

To Victims
of Fascism
Fallen
on September 16, 1941
from Fellow-Countrymen of L'vovo

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