Lanchyn


Jewish cemetery in Lanchyn, 2019



Lanchyn, 1903	Postcard of Jewish publisher A.Krammer, 1910

Sources:
- Russian Jewish encyclopedia
- Jewish encyclopedia of Brockhaus & Efron
- Холокост на территории СССР: Энциклопедия / Гл. ред. И. А. Альтман. - М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН): Научно-просветительный Центр «Холокост», 2009

Photo:
- European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. Published by Center for Jewish art
- Biblioteka Narodowa Polona. Łanczyn

Nadvirna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region

Ivano-Frankivsk region - list of settlements and location of objects

Lanchyn, 2023

Lanchyn, urban-type settlement (since 1940) in the Obvornyansky district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. In the 19th-early 20th centuries-the village of Obvornyansky Povet of the Galicia Province in Austria-Hungary. In 1919–39 - in the Stanislav Voivodeship as part of Poland, in 1939–91 - as part of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1910, about 800 Jews lived in Lanchyn,
in 1921 - 383 (9.3%),
in 1931 - about 500 Jews,
in 1939 - 430 Jews (8.5%).

In 1910, in Lanchyn were 3 synagogues and 4 prayer houses.
The rabbi at the beginning of the 20th century was Sholom Rubinstein.
Jew A. Krammer belonged to a printing house.

In the 1920-30s. in Lanchyn acted departments of various Jewish parties and organizations.

In the spring of 1942, 200 Jews were shot in the village, the rest were evicted in Nadvirna.