Birnbaum

Броди
Brody
Броды
Lubicz
בּראָד
ברודי

Brody was a Jewish trade center in the nineteenth century, considered to be a shtetl.
It was famous for the Brodersänger or Broder singers,
Promulgation of the May Laws, caused massive exodus of Russian Jews.

In the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, Brodywas the site of heavy destruction by both Polish and Russian forces, described extensively in stories of the Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel. After the conflict, Brody became part of Second Polish Republic, and part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship.
Brody was an important military base, with the Kresowa Cavalry Brigade headquarters established there.

In September 1939, after the Polish defeat, Brody was occupied by the Red Army following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Between June 26 and June 30, 1941, a tank battle was fought between the German 1st Panzer Army and 5 Soviet Mechanized Corps with heavy losses on both sides.
In December, 1942, the Germans forced the Jewish population to resettle in the ghetto. Most of the prewar population of 9,000 Jewish inhabitants died, either in the concentration camps, through starvation, forced labour or were shot.