Great Synagogue in Sokal

The Great Synagogue in Sokal is an Ashkenazi synagogue built at the end of the 17th or the beginning of the 18th century. The Baroque brick synagogue is now abandoned.

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Source: European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative

Novyy Vytkiv Jewish Cemetery

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. First, it appears on the 3rd military survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the 1880s.
On June 25, 1941, the Wehrmacht troops occupied Novyy Vytkiv. In June 1942, 1,125 Jews remained. On October 22, 1942, 160 Jews were deported to Belzec death camp. The remnants were expelled in March 1943.