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After
battles on the outskirts of the city, the Red Army occupied Lvov on
July 22, 1944. A large majority of the 110,000 Jews who had
inhabited this city before the war had long since been murdered. A
few Jewish prisoners from the Janowska camp, whom the Germans had
employed and considered "crucial," were murdered as the
Soviets drew closer in June 1944. A very small number were
transferred to the West. Manhunts for concealed Jews in Lvov lasted
until the very last days of the German occupation. The Ukrainian
population caused many deaths by denouncing Jews and turning them
over to the Germans. After the city was liberated, survivors who had
concealed themselves on the "Aryan" side or in forest
hideouts began to return; Ukrainian nationalists murdered several of
them after the liberation.
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