Peremyshliany

Peremyshliany

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Peremyshliany (Ukrainian: Перемишляни, Polish: Przemyślany, Yiddish: פרעמישלאן, Premishlan) is a town in Lviv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It is administrative center of the Peremyshliany Raion. Population is 7,565 (2001).

It had a Jewish population of 2,934 in 1900.

Famous natives

  • Naftule Brandwein, klezmer musician
  • bl. Omelian Kovch (1884–1944), Ukrainian priest and martyr murdered at the Majdanek death camp.
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychoanalyst and natural scientist was born in the village of Dobrzanica (now Dobryanichi), in the Peremyshliany district.
  • Adam Daniel Rotfeld Polish diplomat and Foreign Minister.
  • Baruch Steinberg {1897-1940} Rabbi killed in Katyn Massacre

Coordinates: 49°40′12″N 24°33′34″E / 49.67°N 24.55944°E / 49.67; 24.55944


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