Brody ( uk, Броди; russian: Броды, Brodï; pl, Brody; german: Brody; yi, בראָד, Brod) is a city in Zolochiv Raion of

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(

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) of western

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. It is located in the valley of the upper Styr River, approximately northeast of the oblast capital,

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. Brody hosts the administration of Brody urban hromada, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine. Population: . Brody is the junction of the '' Druzhba'' and '' Odessa–Brody'' oil pipelines.

History

The first mention of a settlement on the site of Brody is dated 1084 (

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). It is believed to have been destroyed by

Batu Khan Batu Khan ( – 1255),, ''Bat haan'', tt-Cyrl, Бату хан; ; russian: хан Баты́й was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde, a constituent of the Mongol Empire. Batu was a son of Jochi, thus a grandson of Genghis Khan. ...

in 1241.

Polish Kingdom

From 1441 Brody was the property of different feudal families (

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; from 1511, Kamieniecki). Brody was granted Magdeburg town rights by Polish King Stephen Báthory by virtue of a privilege issued in

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...

on August 22, 1584. Sadok Barącz, ''Wolne miasto handlowe Brody'', Lwów, 1865, p. 7 (in Polish) It was named Lubicz after the Lubicz coat of arms of the founder, Stanisław Żółkiewski, one of the most accomplished military commanders in Polish history (not to be confused with Lubech, ''Lubecz''). The king also set up three annual

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s. These privileges were confirmed by King Sigismund III Vasa in 1597 at the

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...

. Already in documents from 1598 the city appeared under the name Brody. It was a private town of the Polish Crown, owned by houses of Żółkiewski,

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and

Potocki The House of Potocki (; plural: Potoccy, male: Potocki, feminine: Potocka) was a prominent Polish noble family in the Kingdom of Poland and magnates of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Potocki family is one of the wealthiest and ...

. From the 17th century until the Holocaust the city was populated not only by

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and

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, but also by a significant number of Jews (70% of the town's population),

Armenians Armenians ( hy, հայեր, ''hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora ...

, and

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. From 1629, the city became the property of Stanisław Koniecpolski, another of the most distinguished military commanders in Polish history, who ordered the construction of the

Brody Castle Brody Castle (, ''Brodivskyi zamok'') is a former fortress in the city of Brody, part of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. The earliest information about the construction of the castle in Brody town refers to the 1580s. Crown Hetman ( pl, Hetman polny kor ...

(1630–1635). The castle, or rather the fortress, was designed by the French military engineer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan. It was one of the strongest fortresses located on the route of frequent

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and

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invasions. King Władysław IV Vasa, wanting to reward and assist Koniecpolski in the construction of the fortress, issued a privilege in 1633 in

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, in which he equated fairs in Brody with those in

and

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, granted staple right and exempted city residents from taxes for 15 years. Under the patronage of Koniecpolski, the city flourished. In 1637 he founded a school in which he employed lecturers from the

Kraków Academy The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

, Poland's leading university. Its first director was Jan Marcinkowski. In 1643 he founded a

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and

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fabric manufacture in the city, one of the leading manufactories of this type throughout Poland. Stanisław Koniecpolski died in Brody on March 11, 1646. On June 30, funeral ceremonies took place in Brody. BrodyPalacPotockich

In 1648, during the

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, the castle took eight weeks for

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

to capture. Notably, according to the book '' History of the Rus'', the town's Jewish population was spared after the sack. The Cossacks destroyed and plundered the city. The Jews of Brody were found not to have been engaged in alleged maltreatment of the Orthodox Christian (Rus) population and were only required to pay a "moderate tribute" in kind. In 1704, Brody was purchased by

Potocki family The House of Potocki (; plural: Potoccy, male: Potocki, feminine: Potocka) was a prominent Polish noble family in the Kingdom of Poland and magnates of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Potocki family is one of the wealthiest and ...

. In 1734 the fortress was destroyed by Russian troops and was later replaced by Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki's palace in the Baroque style.

Austrian Empire

As a result of the First Partition of Poland, in 1772, Brody became a part of Habsburg Empire (from 1804 the

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). During the

Austro-Polish War The Austro-Polish War or Polish-Austrian War was a part of the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809 (a coalition of the Austrian Empire and the United Kingdom against Napoleon's French Empire and Bavaria). In this war, Polish forces of the N ...

(part of Polish national liberation fights), on May 27, 1809, the city was captured by Poles without a fight. In 1812,

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was forced by the Austrian government to remove the city's fortifications. In 1817 a secondary school ('' Realschule'') was founded in Brody, transformed in 1865 into a gymnasium. After the

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of Austrian policies in the Austrian Partition of Poland, after 1904 German was gradually replaced by Polish at this school.

Polish Republic

In 1919, Brody became part of the

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, after Poland regained independence a year earlier. It was the site of a battle during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 and heavy destruction by both Polish and Russian forces, and is described extensively in stories of the Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel. Administratively Brody was the seat of the Brody County located in the

Tarnopol Voivodeship Tarnopol Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo tarnopolskie) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939), created on 23 December 1920, with an area of 16,500 km² and provincial capital in Tarnopol (now ''Ternopil'', Ukraine). The voi ...

. Brody was an important military base, with the

Kresowa Cavalry Brigade Kresowa Cavalry Brigade (Polish: ') was a unit of the Polish Army in the interbellum period. It was organized on April 1, 1937 and was based on the Second Cavalry Brigade. Stationed in the town of Brody, it consisted of several regiments: * 20th U ...

headquarters established there. In 1936, the People's University in Brody (''Uniwersytet Ludowy w Brodach'') was founded for farmers from the surrounding area.

World War II

After the

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, during

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, in September 1939, Brody was

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by the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

. The Soviets deported mainly Polish people deep into the USSR. Between June 26 and June 30, 1941, a

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was fought nearby between the German Panzer Group 1 and five Soviet mechanized corps with heavy losses on both sides. From 1941 to 1944 it was occupied by Germany. The local Jews were murdered in the

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(see below). During July–August 1944, Brody and nearby areas saw the battles of the strategically important Lvov-Sandomierz Operation (a.k.a. ''Brodovkiy Kotel'') where the

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army successfully encircled and destroyed German forces. It was occupied by the Soviets again, and in 1945 it was taken from Poland and annexed to the USSR.

The Jews in Brody

A crossroads and a Jewish trade center in the 19th century, the city is considered to be one of the shtetls. It was particularly famous for the ''Brodersänger'' or Broder singers, who were among the first to publicly perform

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songs outside of

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plays and wedding parties. The promulgation of the May Laws, and the massive exodus of Russian Jews which was its result, took the leaders of Western Jewry completely by surprise. Throughout 1881, hundreds of immigrants kept arriving in Brody daily. Their arrival placed the existing Austrian and German influenced ethnic Jews in a quandary. The comfortable middle-class Jewish community of Central and Western Europe looked instinctively to the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the world's largest and most respected Jewish philanthropic agency, to bring order out of chaos, to cope with the huge influx of newcomers. Throughout centuries of Jewish life in Brody until the murderous events of

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, Jews and Gentiles lived a mostly segregated life, with distinct and separate social as well as religious life.

Holocaust in Brody

When German troops occupied the city on July 1, 1941, the Jewish population of some 9,000 was forced to wear an arm-band with the

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. Two hundred fifty intellectuals were arrested on July 15, 1941, and shot two days later at the Jewish cemetery, after being brutally tortured. Encouraged by German occupation authorities, the Ukrainian population started a

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in August 1941, looting Jewish possessions. The Judenrat had to provide labor for repairs and maintenance on the roads and bridges as well as for work in army depots. From December 1941 young people were arrested on the streets and sent to forced labor camps in the vicinity. In September 1942 the ''

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'' started in Brody, leaving 300 people dead. Two thousand people were deported to

Bełżec Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all History of Jews in Poland, Polish Jews, a major part of the "Fina ...

where they would be murdered in the gas chambers. In December 1942 the German occupiers forced the Jewish population to resettle in a ghetto inside the town, where 6,000 people lived in January 1943. During 1943, ''Aktion Reinhardt'' was continued with thousands being killed in the nearby woods in March and April, the Ghetto being liquidated on May 21, 1943. More than 3,000 inhabitants were deported, presumably to

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, but hundreds had already been killed in the Ghetto. Many houses were set on fire to drive out those who had remained hidden there.

After the war

During the

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, Brody air base served Soviet Air Force regiments, while the city was noticeably militarized. Parts of the city to this day are being referred to as Bili Kazarmy (the White Barracks) and as Chervoni Kazarmy (the Red Barracks). The Brody Museum of History and District Ethnography was founded in 2001. Until 18 July 2020, Brody was the administrative center of

Brody Raion Brody Raion ( uk, Бродівський район, translit: ''Brodivs’kyi raion'') was a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) of Western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Brody. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Brody Raion was merged into Zolochiv Raion.

Climate

Gallery

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Notable people

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, physician *

Aryeh Leib Bernstein Aryeh Leib Bernstein (1708 – October 22, 1788) was the first and only Chief Rabbi of Galicia. Life Bernstein was born in 1708 in Brody, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. His father Issacher Ber was a rabbi who served as rabbi of Kehillat ...

(1708–1788), Chief Rabbi of Galicia *

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(Berl Margulis), singer * Oscar Chajes, chess player * Zvi Hirsch Chajes, rabbi and talmudist *

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Shlomo Kluger Solomon ben Judah Aaron Kluger (1785–June 9, 1869) ( he, שלמה בן יהודה אהרן קלוגר), known as the Maggid of Brody, was chief dayyan and preacher of Brody, Galicia. He was successively Rabbi at Rava-Ruska (Galicia), Kulikow ...

, rabbi * Stanisław Koniecpolski, Polish military commander, magnate, and royal official * , Polish writer * Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher * Yechezkel Landau, rabbi *

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(1824–1898), writer * Jacques Mieses, with parents from Brody; he was born in

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Nachman of Horodenka Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka was a Hasidic leader. At first, Rabbi Nachman was among the Talmidei Chachamim who gathered to study Torah in Brody. After experiencing a dream which he interpreted as a signal for him to go to the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi ...

, Hasidic leader * Amalia Nathansohn-Freud (1835–1930), mother of

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(1900–1985), Ukrainian painter and film producer *

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, mathematician * Elazar Rokeach, rabbi *

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, mathematician * Joseph Roth (1894–1939), writer * Dov Sadan (1902–1989), scholar of Yiddish literature, Hebrew Literature and Jewish Folklore * Myron Tarnavskiy (1869–1938), general of Ukrainian Galychina Army * Ivan Trush (1869–1941), Ukrainian artist * (1846–1946), Polish publisher *

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, former

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of Rome who converted to

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* Oksana Lyniv, Ukrainian conductor, since February 2017 is a chief conductor of the Graz Opera

Nearby towns

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Oles'ko Olesko ( uk, Олесько; ; pl, Olesko; yi, אַלעסק, Alesk; ) is an urban-type settlement in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine. It belongs to Busk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . It w ...

Pidhirtsi Pidhirtsi ( uk, Підгірці; pl, Podhorce) is a village of about 1,000 inhabitants in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast of Ukraine, located about 80 km east of Lviv, 17 km south of Brody, 60 km north west of Ternopil, at around . ...

(Szwaby, Schwabendorf),

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settlement * Busk *

Pidkamin Pidkamin ( uk, Підкамінь, pl, Podkamień) is an urban-type settlement in Zolochiv Raion (district), Lviv oblast in Ukraine. It is located near the administrative border of three oblasts, Lviv, Rivne, and Ternopil. Pidkamin hosts the ad ...

* Zboriv * Berezhany

References

Notes

Sources

* Howard M. Sachar, ''The Course of modern Jewish history''. Vintage Books (a division of Random House) Chapter 15 * Kuzmany, Börries, ''Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century'' (Brill, Leiden/Boston 2017). The German version is open access: Kuzmany, Börries: ''Brody. Eine galizische Grenzstadt im langen 19. Jahrhundert'' (Böhlau, Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2011).
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Photo Gallery of Brody (1.03.2008, 51 photos)

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