![]() ġ919 Mar 10 – At the conclusion of the 3rd Congress of Soviets in Ukraine, with support from Bolshevik Russia and in opposition to Ukrainian nationalists fighting for independence, the state is named the Ukrainian SSR. Diplomats from the Entente threaten to break ties with the Ukrainians, who halt their offensive for a week, allowing Polish forces to re-group. Over the next two years, the Polish-Soviet War will harden and escalate, with the front reaching across most of eastern Poland and western Ukraine.ġ919 Feb 20 – A week-long Ukrainian offensive succeeds in surrounding Lviv/Lwów, cutting its rail connection to Przemyśl. Civil war continues for several more years between several Ukrainian political entities plus Bolshevik Russian forces, all claiming control of the territory.ġ919 Feb 14 – After isolated skirmishes related to Soviet Russia’s westward expansion efforts, serious hostilities open between Poland and Russian armies in Belarus. Fighting will continue despite a truce and to mostly Polish advantage for seven months.ġ919 Jan 18 – The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles with a program to resolve the open issues from the recently-ended war: reparations, mandates, and revised state boundaries to better represent ethnic boundaries.ġ919 Jan 22 – The Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic sign an “Akt Zluky” symbolically creating a unified Ukrainian state. ġ918 Dec 27 – An uprising of ethnic Poles breaks out in Poznań, challenging German control over lands which had been part of Prussia since the Partitions. Ukrainian forces continue to hold most territories south and east of Lwów, including Rohatyn. Over a thousand people are arrested after martial law is imposed in the city. Three days of city-wide pogroms begin, resulting in the looting and destruction of Jewish shops and homes, and the killing of at least 50 Jews by Polish soldiers, criminals, and others. The fighting of World War I ends at 11am, and the prospects of new independence for Poland and Ukraine seem strong, but many territorial issues remain openly disputed.ġ918 Nov 21 – The Ukrainian military loses control of Lviv/Lwów to Polish forces and withdraws from the city. ġ918 Nov 11 – An armistice is signed between the Entente Powers and Germany in a carriage of Ferdinand Foch’s private train in the Forest of Compiègne, 60km north of Paris. Many who become ill in Rohatyn subsequently die because of extensive war damage to health care facilities and services. Source: ANNO.ġ918 Nov – The deadly influenza pandemic raging through Europe peaks, and reaches Rohatyn, with high infection rates and severe symptoms. The Austrian view of the war, at the start and at the end, as seen in the Viennese “humorous weekly” The Musket: at left, the call to arms in early August 1914 at right, “Homecoming” a few days after the armistice was signed in November 1918. Within days, a new Polish-Ukrainian War has begun, before the conclusion of the Great War of the past four years.ġ918 Nov 8 – Avraam Weidman, a 25-year-old Jewish Lieutenant born in Rohatyn, enlists to serve in the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) he is assigned to the 2nd Galician Corps to fight for independent Ukraine. Timelineġ918 Nov 1 – With empires collapsing across central Europe in the last days of World War I, Ukrainian military units take control of Lemberg/Lviv/Lwów and declare the formation of an independent West Ukrainian People’s Republic comprising eastern Galicia and some of the lands surrounding it with large ethnic Ukrainian populations Lviv is declared the capital. Most of the sources are linked inline or listed at the end of this page. This history comes from many sources and many perspectives, Jewish and otherwise, and includes historical facts (plus a few legends) which illuminate life in Rohatyn’s past to better understand its present. This page is part of a selective history of the Jewish community of Rohatyn. The growing emigration trends also changed life for Jews who remained in Rohatyn, and spread awareness of Rohatyn to America and Palestine. Nonetheless it was a time of rapid evolution of the Jewish community, distressed by global economic collapse and regional ethnic pressure, but brightened by social organizations and fellowship, and broadening the exchange of ideas with their peers in Europe and beyond. Although often labeled “interwar”, the period was not without its own wars and other armed conflicts, in Central Europe and even in Rohatyn. Presented here is a timeline of Jewish life in Rohatyn between the World Wars, i.e. ![]() Go to the outline, A History of the Jewish Community of Rohatyn.
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