traders” were also identified among the victims of the massacre in the prison in Złoczów). The figures in the NKVD documents of 2 July572 are smaller: 2,464 prisoners “fewer in the first category” (that is, murdered) in three prisons in Lvov (almost 10,000 of more than 36,000 prisoners in all prisons of “Western Belarus” and “Western Ukraine”).
The Germans and Ukrainians drove a few thousand Jews thrown out of their flats or captured on the street to the prisons on Kazimierzowska (Brygidki ), Łąckiego, Zamarstynowska (barracks), Pełczyńska (power station building, with a Gestapo station), and Jachowicza streets. The Jews were forced to perform sanitation jobs and to exhume and wash corpses. Most of them
(a few thousand, perhaps even as many as 7,000) were then murdered either on the spot or on the street. Most of the perpetrators were Ukrainians: members of the Sicz organisation (paramilitary branch of the Ukrainian government declared by Stepan Bandera) and the Ukrainian Nachtigall Battalion. They were assisted by the SS-men from SK 4b under the command of Günther Herrmann,573 the SS-men and policemen from BdS-Kommando Lemberg under the command of E. Schöngarth, field gendarmerie, and dozens of Wehrmacht soldiers.574 The first “spontaneous” pogroms continued with the arrest of approximately 2,000 Jews three days later, who were detained at the Gestapo prison on Pełczyńska Street and executed two days later in the Bilohorsk forest near Lvov.575
The “Petlura Days”576 were the third act of the “squaring up with the Bolsheviks and Jews”. Between 25 and 27 July, another 1,500–2,000 people
