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Holocaust memorial
About 500m north of the Theatre of Opera and Ballet on pr Chornovola is the Holocaust memorial, a vaguely cubist statue of a tormented figure looking skyward. The Lviv ghetto began here after most of the city's Jews were killed or deported to Belzec in the 'Great Action' of August 1942. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was the most famous resident of the ghetto, which was liquidated in June 1943.
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Janowska concentration camp
A 15-minute walk west of the cemetery are a plaque and a billboard marking the spot of the Janowska concentration camp, now a prison. About 200m further west on vul Tarasa Shevchenka is Kleparivska train station, the last stop before Belzec on the Nazi death train. A plaque commemorates the 500,000 doomed Galician Jews who passed through here.
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Lychakivsky Cemetery
Don't even think of leaving town until you've seen the Lychakivsky Cemetery, even though it is a short journey from the centre. This is the Père Lachaise of Eastern Europe. With the same sort of overgrown grounds and Gothic aura as the famous Parisian necropolis, Lychakivsky is the final resting place for more than 400,000 people.
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