International exhibition “Holocaust in Lviv: 1941-1944” was opened in the historical museum of Lviv. The exhibition presented more than 300 exhibits from municipal archive and museum collections as well as from Memory Museum in Belzec (Poland), where the Nazis established the same concentration camp for extermination of Jews like in Lviv. International Center “Holocaust” named after Dr. Schwarz took part in the exhibition too.

Many exhibits belong to the museum of All-Ukrainian Jewish Charitable Foundation “Hesed-Arieh”and private collections.

The purpose of the exhibition was to show contemporary generation the essence of totalitarian system.  The Nazis started to solve “final Jewish problem” immediately they entered Lviv. They spread the posters all over the city which called upon to anti-Jewish actions, distributed judofob leaflets which blamed Jews with unleashing of WW II and accusing them of killing of thousands of Poles and Ukrainians.

The exhibition also presented old orders and instructions which deprived Jews of many professions and prohibited them to use public transport and move all over the city, etc. Separate orders forced Jews to wear special signs and move to a specially establish area - the ghetto (Jugenlag) … The orders were printed in German, Ukrainian and Polish and their violation led to death punishment. Those who helped the Jews had to be killed as well.

The exposition presented  the pictures of the valley where the killed Jews had been thrown by the Nazis into deep pits in order to conceal fascists‘ crimes. In Yanowska concentration camp the Nazis established from the prisoners Zondercommand,  which under intensive guard cremated corpses . Milled bones were used for fertilization.  Among the exhibits you could see a drum and seeding-machine which spread crumbled bones. Also - certificates with personal numbers of the prisoners, utensils, clothes and shoes, etc. 

The exhibition presented the pictures of the deceased Jews- well-known artists, musicians, composers.

Separate expositions were devoted to the Righteous Among the Nations, who saved the Jews.
“Jewish news agency”,  Boris Dorfman  - 26.06.2007

A unique exhibition “Jews of Lviv between two World Wars” initiated by All-Ukrainian Jewish Charitable Foundation “Hesed-Arieh” was opened in Lviv Museum of History of Religion. The exposition covers the period from 1918 until 1939. It presents various items of culture and every-day life, books and the press published in Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish and Hebrew. Unique books and some items of everyday-life from the funds of Hesed’s museum “Tracing Galician Jews” were exposed here for the first time; silver and synagogue needlework were taken from the reserves of Museum of History of Religion; some books- from Lviv Scientific Library named after Stefanyk. Major of exhibits are exposed for the first time within the last ten years.

Festive opening of the exhibition was attended by a number of people. Deputy governor of Lviv Regional State Administration Igor Derzhko and the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Ї”, chief of internal relationship department of Lviv Regional State Administration Taras Voznyak personally greeted the guests. Director of the Museum Zoryana Bilyk assured that this exhibition meant another step towards long lasting cooperation with “Hesed-Arieh”. Hesed’s Director Adel Dianova in her speech sincerely hoped that in the future multicultural Lviv will finally have Jewish museum.  Now Hesed’s museum “Tracing Galician Jews” is the only Jewish museum in the city.