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Soviet Union Massacres

By Connecticut Holocaust and Genocide Education Resources | May 10, 2023
With the invasion of the Soviet Union, mobile killing units began conducting massacres of Jewish populations in this area. Lvov, Leon’s
home in 1941, can be found near the western border with the Nazi established General Gouvernment (western Poland).
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