According to the testimony of several survivors, in the course of the pogrom carried out in Tarnopol in early July 1941, a number of Jews were forced by Ukrainian nationalists into an old synagogue known as Reb Yankel's prayer house on Staroszkolna (today Parashchuk) Street and were burned alive there.

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Written Testimonies

From the Testimony of Sonia Mandel (Yaffe), who was born in 1921

…Immediately after they [the Germans] occupied [Tarnopol] the pogroms started…They took people out of their houses, dragged them to a synagogue, and burned down the synagogue with the people [inside]…

YVA O.3 / 5849

Reb Yankel's Prayer House in Tarnopol

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Murder Site

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