Exterior of the abandoned synagogue established in 1789 in Bolekhiv a regional city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine which was once home to a large Jewish community. During the Holocaust, the Jewish community was annihilated, brutally, by the Germans with local Ukrainian collaborators. Only 48 of Bolekhiv's Jews were known to have survived the war.

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