The Lemberg Mosaic

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780983109105


The Lemberg Mosaic by Jakob Weiss brings to light the little known story of the systematic and total destruction of Jewish Lemberg. In pre-war days, the city once known as Lwów was the third largest in Poland with the third largest Jewish population (after Warsaw and Lódz). While some call it the "Holocaust by Bullets," or the "Shoah of Jewish Galicia" or the "Ukrainian Holocaust," what we now know for certain is that well over one million Jews were brutally murdered during World War II in the eastern-most region of Poland, also known as Galicia, today"s west Ukraine. The late Simon Wiesenthal, who had escaped from Lemberg"s Janowska - a death and transit camp, now the mass grave of over 200,000 Jewish victims and in 1942 the re-routing point for another 500,000 sent to Belzec, the Nazi"s infamous death factory - lamented that so little had been written about this important aspect of the Holocaust. He stated, "[t]here are only about a dozen accounts of the Janowska concentration camp," and concluded, "my heart bleeds when I read them, but I also feel a certain satisfaction, because after all, there are some lucky ones who survived." In fact, only 200 did, and only about 500 others survived the demise of Lemberg"s Jewish community. Today, Lemberg is called L"viv and Janowska is a lonely patch of woods in Ukraine. This story is told through the eyes of four families trapped in the virtually seamless web of Hitler"s "Final Solution." It details their struggle for survival - against all odds. It is one part Holocaust memoir, one part history book, one part family genealogy, one part forensic research into the massacre of Galician Jewry... and all riveting non-fiction.