Description
Lanowce in western Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire from 1795 until the end of World War I in 1918. In the Russian census of 1897, there were 1,174 Jews out of a total population of 2,525. When national boundaries changed after the war, it became part of the Second Republic of Poland which lasted until it was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939 and then occupied by the Nazis in 1941. Ukraine returned to Soviet rule after the war until it became independent in 1991.