The Ghetto at Brody

Brody a town in the Lvov Oblast(district) Ukrainian SSR. Founded in the sixteenth century, Brody was under Polish rule in the period from 1918 to 1939, and was annexed to the Soviet Union in September of that year, 9000 Jews lived there in 1939.

It was one of the important Jewish communities in Galicia and for many years Jews constituted a majority of the population. Brody was well known on the one hand it was a renowned Hassidic centre, yet at the same time at the beginning of the 19^th Century Brody also became one of the first locations of the Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) in the province.

The prominent Jewish – Austrian novelist Joseph Roth came from Brody. The town itself was also well- known from the 18^th Century when it became a major trading place, and in the 19^th Century because of its location close to the Russian border, many Jewish refugees passed through Brody fleeing Russian pogroms.

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