LVIV: CENTER FOR URBAN HISTORY OF
EAST CENTRAL EUROPE
Language
buttons are available for English, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian in the top
right corner of pages.
The
institute was created in order to:
“…encourage
research… into the history of East
Central Europe…into the history of Lviv…enrich Lviv’s cultural life…promote
public awareness of Lviv through …gathering and cataloguing information and
documentation….”
This
site offers a fabulous array of interactive maps, photos, videos/movies, and
other forms of information.—A "must see" for anyone with an interest in this
area of Eastern Europe.
“Research
Projects” (maps, photos, etc.) http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/researchprojects/
__includes a "Survey of Synagogues in Galicia (Ukraine)"--focuses on “…synagogues and
other Jewish sacred objects that remained on the territory of Galicia that is
now part of Ukraine.”
__can browse by location: Lviv Region, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ternopil Region
“Lviv
Interactive”
__Browse by type:
EX. 1. "synagogues and Beth Hamidrash Buildings http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/lia/map/show=objtype&cat_ci_objecttypeid=24
2. "Residential Buildings", etc.
__Browse by Past and Current Projects
EX. "Holocaust in Lviv"
"Digital Urban Maps"
__can
be browsed by time period, by location (in addition to Lviv, other locations
include Boryslav, Budapest, Chernivtsi, Drohobych, Kyiv, Lublin, Ternopil,
Vilius, Brody, Lodz, Warsaw, and many more areas) and by collection.
"Digital Urban Videos" http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/uvd/
___can be browsed by type of film, chronology, location (Ivano-Fankivsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Moscow, Uzhgorod)
EX. ---by chronology: 1939-1945--"Five Cities, 1939 Lviv", "Jewish Life in Lemberg 1939, Lviv"
"Lviv Streets"
__ongoing project to, "...collect, systematize and publish information about the streets of Lviv..."
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