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Стрий (Stryi), трийський район, Львівська область, Україна
| City | Стрий |
| Church Parish | трийський район |
| State/Province | Львівська область |
| Country | Україна |
| Latitude | 49°15'N |
| Longitude | 23°51'E |
Gallery
Stryi coat of arms
Stryi marker on road to Ivano Frankivsk
Stryj map 1922
Stryj town plan
Stryj Jewish street
Stryj Jewish street
Stryj Great Synagogue
Stryj Memorial
Stryj Rynek Square
Narrative
Stryj was first populated by Jews in the late 1500's.
The first synagogue in Stryj was built in 1660.
After Poland was partitioned, Stryj became part of the Austrian Empire in 1772, at which time there were about 440 Jewish families in the town and suburbs.
After World War I, Stryjwas part of the area that became a free and sovereign Poland. The town had a Jewish population s 10,988 in 1921 and about 12,000 in 1939.
The Germans occupied Stryj on July 2, 1941, and hundreds of Jews were immediately killed.
They established the Jewish Quarter (Juedisches Wohnviertel), separated Jews from the Aryan population, and made room for another 11,000 persons who had been expelled from the small towns of the district, which were thus made Judenrein.
In November 1941, 1,200 Jews were shot in the Holobotow forest. Several depotations to extermination camps took place beginning in September, 1942. Between June and August of 1943 the Stryj ghetto and labor camps near the town were liquidated.
When the Soviet army occupied Stryjin August, 1944 there were only a few Jewish survivors. No Jewish community was re-established.
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On the 16th of June, 1974,The Martyrs of Stryj Killed in the Holocaust was unveiled in the Memorial Section of the Nachlat Yitzhak cemetery in Israel, was unveiled
Under the stone is a box containing a parchment scroll of the names of the Stryj victims. The list was compiled by the Former Residents of Stryj Organization in Israel with the help of the survivors and comprises over 4,000 names of Jews from Stryj killed in the Holocaust.
Among the names of the Stryj Holocaust victims are:
Chana Hertz
Genya Hertz, daughter of Yisroel Hertz
Gitl Hertz
Karola Hertz
Yisroel Hertz
Narrative
Stryj Stryi Stryja Stryia Stryy is located in Western Ukraine (formerly Eastern Galicia) about 65 kilometers south of L'viv.