List of Images

Victims and Ruins

Ukrainian soldiers taking a wounded companion to the city hall. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Victims and Ruins

Killed Ukrainian in the city hall. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Victims and Ruins

The Chasidic synagogue looted and burned down during the pogrom. This is one of the most famous images of 1918 pogrom in Lviv

Victims and Ruins

Main Post Office destroyed during the fighting.

Victims and Ruins

House at ulica Sykstuska, 36 (today, Doroshenka), with numerous gun shots. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Victims and Ruins

Main hall of the Galician Diet after the November 1918 events

Prisoners and the Interned

Ukrainian POWs are lead through the streets of Lviv to the court building (November 23, 1918). Source: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Prisoners and the Interned

Ludwik de Laveaux, 1891-1966

Prisoners and the Interned

Myron Tarnavskyi (1869-1938)

Prisoners and the Interned

Police building (Gendarmerie)

Prisoners and the Interned

The Higher Provincial Court and Criminal Tribunal building where Ukrainian POWs were to be judged

The Legitimacy of Power

Charles I von Habsurg manifesto from 16 October 1918. Source: Austrian National Archive

The Legitimacy of Power

The last Habsburg emperor Charles I.

The Legitimacy of Power

Galician Governor Karl von Huyn. Source: Austrian National Archive

The Legitimacy of Power

Governor's palace building in early 1900s.

The Legitimacy of Power

Galician Vice Governor Volodymyr Detsykevych (Wołodymyr Decykiewicz)

The Legitimacy of Power

The Head of the Ukrainian National Council, Yevhen Petrushevych (Jewhen Petruszewicz)

The Legitimacy of Power

National House building on ulica Rutowskiego, 22 (today Teatralna) where Ukrainian National Council gathered (photo from before 1890s)

Civilians During Conflict

Children having received food after the pogrom. Source: YIVO digital archive

Civilians During Conflict

Civilians on the streets in November 1918. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Civilians During Conflict

Food carts on a Lviv street during November 1918. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Double Loyalty

The Galician Diet building. On the right, the monument to one of Galician Governors, Agenor Gołuchowski

Double Loyalty

Central prospect called Karla Ludwiga street before WWI. On the right, the Tax administration building (does not exist today)

Double Loyalty

Dr. Lonhyn Tsehelskyi

Cultural Life

The Great City Theater before the war

Cultural Life

Page no. 4 from DILO newspaper from November 3, 1918, advertising film screenings in cinemas

Cultural Life

A pre-war advertisement of Kopernik and Marysieńka, "first-class" cinemas

Cultural Life

Library at the National Ossolinski Institute. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Change of Power

The Galician Diet building

Change of Power

The Military Command building on pl. Soborna, 6 (then plac Bernardyński), where the City Commandant worked.

Change of Power

Office of the Police Director Reinländer after the events in November 1918

Transport and Mobility

Main Post Office building before the war

Transport and Mobility

Main Post Office building after the war destruction

Transport and Mobility

Main train station

Rules and Security

Message about the "State of Siege" in DILO newspaper from November 3, 1918. Signed by Dmytro Vitovskyi

Rules and Security

Permit for the German Consul General Edward von Heinze to visit Governor Karl von Huyn living few streets away. From the collection of the State Archive of Lviv Oblast

Rules and Security

Stepan Baran. Source: Sejm i Senat 1935-1940 : IV kadencja, 1936, 222

Rules and Security

Wit Sulimirski, leader of the Municipal Public Guard. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Rules and Security

The Municipal Public Guard. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930.

Rules and Security

A permit for a Ukrainian soldier to visit his home, signed by lieutenant Levytskyi. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Provision

Products taken to the Food Board at Bliakharska street (now Ivana Fedorova). From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Provision

Rynok square during November 1918. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Organizing Charity

Carts, used to transport the food. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

Organizing Charity

Aleksandra Zagórska. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Organizing Charity

Stepan Fedak (1861-1937)Wounded

Organizing Charity

Wounded Polish soldiers by the hospital that functioned in the Polytechnic School building

Organizing Charity

Ukrainian Galician Army medical service

The Front Line

A Ukrainian soldier on pl. Rynok. Photo from the collection of Stepan Hayduchok.

The Front Line

Henryk Sienkiewicz school. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

The Front Line

Zdzisław Trześniowski ("Tatar"), commandant at the Sienkiewicz school (1-2 November), and later of Mary Magdalene school. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

The Front Line

Weapons stored at the Sienkiewicz school. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

The Front Line

"Dom techników" (Technician's House). Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

The Front Line

Fights in the Jesuit Garden (now Ivan Franko park). Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

The Front Line

'A Polish the Jesuit garden (now Ivan Franko park). Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Fights for the Train Station

State of the railway station after the battles on November 3-4. Source: NArodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Fights for the Train Station

After the ammunition storage was blown up. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Fights for the Train Station

By the Chernivetskyi Station, after a big fire. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930.

Fights for the Citadel

Citadel in the first days of November 1918. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok.

Fights for the Citadel

One of the citadel towers that was burned up by Ukrainians during their retreat. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Fights for the Citadel

Part of the Polish group on the Citadel hill after Ukrainians retreated

Fights for the Citadel

Sich Rifleman Captain Osyp Bukshovanyi. Photo taken during WWI.

Fights for the Ferdinand Barracks

The Barracks main building in 1863.

Fights for the Ferdinand Barracks

View of the city from the Stracenia Mount, 1920s

Fights for the Ferdinand Barracks

Memorial to executed Wiśniowski and Kapusciński on the Stracenia Mount

Fights for the Ferdinand Barracks

Destruction of the Barracks. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Fights for the Ferdinand Barracks

Destruction of the Barracks. The main building as seen from the rear side. Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Fights for the Ferdinand Barracks

Destroyed barracks. On the background, the residential buildings on Janowska street (today Shevchenka)

Communication and Information

Barricade on present-day Horodotska street

Communication and Information

DILO newspaper front page, issue from November 3, 1918

Communication and Information

Polish newspaper Kurjer Lwowski from November 6, 1918

Communication and Information

Messages of people informing their relatives about their state in the DILO newspaper

Communication and Information

Editorial board of Polish war newspaper "Pobudka". Source: Semper Fidelis, 1930

Negotiations and Armistices

Message from the newspaper "Pobudka" from November 20, 1918, about the continuation of the ceasefire

Negotiations and Armistices

Message from the newspaper "Pobudka" from November 20, 1918, with the terms on which the ceasefire can be continued

Negotiations and Armistices

Destroyed electric station at Persenkwka/ Persenkivka

Negotiations and Armistices

Lieutenant Ludwik de Laveaux, delegated by the Polish command to sign the ceasefire agreement

Negotiations and Armistices

Sich Rifleman captain Osyp Bukshovanyi, delegated by the Ukrainian command to sign the ceasefire agreement

Futile Attempts of Agreement

Main railway station where the negotiations between Ukrainians and Poles did not work out

Futile Attempts of Agreement

Roman Catholic St. Elizabeth church, known to be one of the first places where Polish resistance was formed, and weapons gathered

Futile Attempts of Agreement

City Hall surrounded by Ukrainian forces. From the collection of Stepan Hayduchok

A New Unwanted War

Myths and Legends

Linocut by Olena Kulchytska. Theseus picking up a sword (symbolizing state power) prepared for the 10th anniversary of the November 1918 events. Credits: Nadiya Kinash

Myths and Legends

This photo demostrates how Polish propaganda emphasized the participation of children and teenagers in the Novemer fights in Lviv

Myths and Legends

Jurek Bitschan who died in November 1918 became one of the symbols of the "Defence of Lviv"

Rituals of Later Times

All Saints Day on November 1, 2018 on the "Eaglets Cemetery". Image courtesy: Konstanty Czawaga / Kurjer Galicyjski

Rituals of Later Times

Yanivskyi cemetery, a restored field where Ukrainian Galician Army soldiers had been buried.

Rituals of Later Times

Memorial to the Ukrainians who died in the November 1918 fights, on the former Zboishcha village cemetery, now Lviv, vulytsia Midna

Rituals of Later Times

Ukrainian Galician Army grave at Znesinnia cemetery

Rituals of Later Times

Performance about the November fights. Photo credits: Istorychna Pravda