Zamarstyniv
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Zamarstyniv (
Lemberg Ghetto
.
The name of the modern borough comes from the original village that was founded there in 1423 on
Tartars, who burnt to the ground a local manor belonging to one of Lviv's counsellors Dominik Wilczek
.
Following the
Galicia
, became part of Austria-Hungary. By then the demand for turf dwindled and Zamarstyniv's residents became impoverished. No longer able to provide the town with goods, the village was sold into private hands in the early 19th century. Since then the settlement grew to become a residential suburb. In 1890 it had 3,379 inhabitants, including 3,257 Poles, 47 Germans and 44 Ukrainians.
During the
political prison
.
Following the Soviet takeover of the city of Lviv after the
Bełżec and Janów Lubelski
and by 1943 the ghetto was completely liquidated.
After the war, the city became part of
Ukrainian SSR and the Zamarstyniv suburb was rebuilt, this time mostly as an industrial area with some residential functions retained by the southern part of the borough. Since 1991, it has been a part of independent Ukraine
.