Peremyshliany
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Peremyshliany (Ukrainian: Перемишляни, Polish: Przemyślany) is a town in Lviv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It is administrative center of the Peremyshliany Raion. Population is 7,565 (2001).
It had a Jewish population of 2,934 in 1900.[1]
[edit] Famous natives
- Naftule Brandwein, klezmer musician
- bl. Omelian Kovch (1884–1944), Ukrainian priest and martyr murdered at the Majdanek death camp.
- Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychoanalyst and natural scientist was born in the village of Dobrzanica (now Dobryanichi), in the Peremyshliany district.
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld Polish diplomat and Foreign Minister.
- Baruch Steinberg {1897-1940} Rabbi killed in Katyn Massacre
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Coordinates: 49°40′12″N 24°33′34″E / 49.67°N 24.55944°E
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