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accessible from vul Yeroshenka (a side street off vul Tarasa
Shevchenka). A 15-minute walk west of the cemetery are a plaque and a billboard
marking the spot of the
Janowska concentration camp
(vul Vynnytsya, off vul Tarasa
Shevchenka)
, 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.
Artefacts of Lviv's Jewish heritage are scattered around various museums in the
Old Town. There's a small Holocaust exhibit in the Lviv History Museum branch at
pl Rynok 6, while the Museum of Religious History attached to the Dominican
Cathedral has a collection of Jewish relics, and the
Hesed-Arieh Jewish Centre
seum on Jews in Galicia. Lviv's only functioning synagogue is the attractive
Beis
Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue
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(vul Brativ Mikhnovskykh
4)
, built in 1924.
Entertainment
Advance tickets for most of Lviv's venues are sold at the
Teatralna Kasa
(Theatre Box Of-
fice; pr Svobody 37;
10am-5pm Mon-Sat)
.
Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv
Theatre of Opera & Ballet
THEATRE
( 235 6586;
www.opera.lviv.ua
; pr Svobody 28)
For an evening of high culture, and to enjoy
the ornate building, take in a performance at this Lviv institution. Closes for most of July
and August.
Philharmonia
CLASSICAL MUSIC
( 235 8136;
www.philharmonia.lviv.ua
;
vul Chaykovskoho 7)
If classical music is your thing,
let yourself be wooed by the sweet strains of Lviv's regional philharmonic orchestra. Th-
ings are very quiet here from July through to mid-September.
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