Krakovets

Coordinates: 49°57′30″N 23°9′26″E / 49.95833°N 23.15722°E / 49.95833; 23.15722
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Krakovets
Краковець
Krakowiec
Rural settlement
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
81034
Area code+380 32(59)
Map

Krakovets (

Polish-Ukrainian border, roughly half way between Lviv in Ukraine and Kraków in Poland on the European route E40, hosting the Korczowa-Krakovets border crossing. Krakovets belongs to Yavoriv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] The population was estimated at 1,154 (2022 estimate)[2]
.

History

The first record mentioning the settlement dates from 1320. In 1425 the town received

Grand Duchy of Moscow
and their successors.

Until the

Austro-Hungarian Empire
.

In 1923 Krakowiec returned to Poland, but shortly after in 1939, according to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Krakowiec became victim of genocide, ethnocide and other crimes and atrocities detailed by Gestapo–NKVD conferences, e.g. the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia performed by Ukrainians and after the establishment of District of Galicia in 1941 The Holocaust (Shoah) of the Jews. After World War II, Krakowiec became part of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union and was since known as Krakovets. In 1991, Krakovets became part of independent Ukraine.

Until 26 January 2024, Krakovets was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Krakovets became a rural settlement.[3]

Changing nationalities

Bełżec extermination camp
was just 50 km north of Krakowiec.

In the

Byelorussians, Lithuanians, Silesians, Armenians, Lipka Tatars, Germans and Ashkenazi Jews. In the era of the decline of multi-national empires and the rise of nation states, the Poles were deported or killed, the Jews were slaughtered en masse, and as a result of genocide, deportations, and ultimately the rise of nation states, Krakovets became an exclusively Ukrainian town.[4] In 1945 the remaining Polish survivors were deported, mainly to Silesia (Bytom, Brzeg, Wrocław, Legnica
...).

The destruction of the Jews of Krakowiec

Before the

holocaust.[6][7]

The nearby

Bełżec extermination camp
, one of the biggest extermination camps in World War 2, was just around 50 km (30 miles) away.

Border crossing

Schengen exit stamp from Korczowa.

The

Polish-German border, connecting with Ukrainian M10 highway leading to Lviv
.

References

  1. ^ "Яворовская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.
  4. ^ Jews and their Neighbours in Krakowiec by Bernard Wasserstein
  5. ^ Holocaust and Memory in Europe; Holocaust Amnesia: The Ukrainian Diaspora and the Genocide of the Jews by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe
  6. ^ Krakovets, Ukraine, at JewishGen
  7. ^ Jewish Gen edition of Swastika over Jaworow by Samuel Druck, pages 12, 15, etc.

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