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  DROHOBYCH - DROHOBYCZ - DROGOBYCH - DROGOBICH, information page on town in Western part of Ukraine (Ukraina /Ucraina). ...
City of Georgius de Drohobycz, Bruno Schulz and Maurycy Gotlieb and Ivan Franko...
Drohobych in Ukrainian, Drogobych in Russian and Drohobycz in Polish.
The most famous Ukrainian - Galician writer and poet Ivan Franko was born in Drohobych county (village Nahuyevychi).
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/drohobych.htm   (775 words)

  
  Anne Applebaum -- An Oddball Miles From Anywhere
The curse of Drohobycz is not merely that it is a provincial Ukrainian town, on the edge of what used to be the Soviet empire.
The curse of Drohobycz is that it has always been a provincial town, on the edge of something else.
He was born in Drohobycz in 1892, the son of an assimilated Jewish merchant family, and lived there most of his life.
www.anneapplebaum.com /other/2003/03_15_spec_oddball.html   (718 words)

  
 Drohobycz Administrative District
For Drohobycz please see the Map section, specifically two maps of the Drohobycz area and a streetmap of the town with the names of the streets before 1939 and after 1991.
The town of Drohobycz was the administrative centre of this district that was created in the province of Galicia in 1867 under Austrian rule.
Drohobycz was closely allied with the neighbouring town of Borysław the centre of the petroleum industry.
www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /drohobycz/shtetls/shtetls_Drohobycz.asp   (484 words)

  
 JewishJournal.com
It is Bruno Schulz’s haunting self-portrait that gazes at us from the cover of Henryk Grynberg’s powerful book, "Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories," and it is Schulz and his fellow residents of the eastern borderlands of prewar Poland who inspire Grynberg’s tales, which have been awarded the 2002 Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction.
The documentary-like stories of "Drohobycz, Drohobycz" are set in almost a dozen countries.
In "Drohobycz, Drohobycz," Grynberg carries on this work, using fiction to tell "True Tales From the Holocaust and Life After" and to create a compelling portrait of the effect two totalitarian systems — Nazism and Stalinist communism — had on the lives of millions.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=10426   (669 words)

  
 Yad Vashem’s statement regarding the sketches by Bruno Schulz
It was and still is clear to Yad Vashem that the Drohobycz municipality was aware of the laws in its own country, and that despite information to the contrary, no Ukrainian law forbidding the removal from the Ukraine of the works of Bruno Schulz exists.
In May 2001, Shraberman and a team of two specialists in the field of restoration went to Drohobycz on behalf of Yad Vashem, and a meeting was arranged with the owner of the apartment by Michatz and Deputy Mayor, Taras Metyk.
Throughout his stay in Drohobycz, the Yad Vashem representative, Shraberman, informed and cooperated with the town’s municipality, to the extent that the municipality even assisted in the provision of materials required for packing the wall paintings.
www1.yadvashem.org /about_yad/press_room/press_releases/schulz.html   (977 words)

  
 Drohobycz
Drohobycz was a town in the Lwow district in Poland, which, today, is part of the Ukraine.
The first is postmarked November 20, 1941, from Drohobycz to Slovakia.
The second was sent by the Judenrat in Drohobycz to the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto, postmarked October 17, 1941.
www.edwardvictor.com /Ghettos/drohobycz_main.htm   (0 words)

  
 Forced Laborers in Boryslaw and Drohobycz
Borysław and Drohobycz became important Polish communities between the late 17th century and the middle 18th century due to the discovery of oil.
The Jewish population of Drohobycz in 1931 was 12,931.
In September 1942 a ghetto was established for the remaining 9,000 Jews in Drohobycz.
www.jewishgen.org /databases/Holocaust/0031_Boryslaw_and_Drohobycz_laborers.html   (1074 words)

  
 Jaimy Gordon, "The Strange Afterlife of Bruno Shulz"
Drohobycz itself was a kind of cul-de-sac: the old but yeasty, seamy little oil boomtown was prized, it seems, by nobody else, so that now the name of Drohobycz is firmly linked to the name of Bruno Schulz wherever you go, unless you happen to be from Drohobycz--now Ukrainian Drogobych --yourself.
Drohobycz, when Schulz was born in 1892, was an old trading city in the Carpathian foothills with an ancient salt works and a tar pit.
Supposedly among the figures are faces from Schulz's circle in Drohobycz: besides a host of self-caricatures, the bands of agonized suitors include Schulz's friend Mundek Pilpul and brother-in-law Hoffman, and among the coldly seductive girls and women is his cousin Tynka Kupferberg, whom his mother wanted Schulz to marry.
www.wmich.edu /english/fac/jaimy.vita.html   (10108 words)

  
 The New Yorker: PRINTABLES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1941, when the Germans seized the Polish town of Drohobycz, Felix Landau, the notorious Gestapo officer in charge of the Jewish labor force, took an interest in Bruno Schulz, a local writer and artist who had submitted samples of his work to the Judenrat in the hope of gaining employment.
When he was forced to move to the Drohobycz ghetto, a year before his death, he divided up his papers, which are said to have included at least two unpublished manuscripts and hundreds of drawings, prints, and paintings, and entrusted them to a few non-Jewish friends for safekeeping.
The Germans retook Drohobycz in June, 1941, during Operation Barbarossa, and Schulz was forced to give up his home and move to the ghetto.
www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/021216crbo_books   (2924 words)

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