title: Periods of History of the Lviv Medical University and Criminal Repressions During the Nazi Occupation and Stalinist Era.
abstract: This article covers the history of the Lviv Medical University from the period of Austria-Hungarian rule until the modern period of independent Ukraine. Its functioning has been conditioned by the different periods of foreign rule, whether Austrian, Hungarian, Polish, German or Soviet Union.This story covers well known scientists-professors as well as other Ukrainian teachers and students.We record the arrests and murders of physicians by Stalin's followers and Hitler's soldiers against the background of prevailing conditions in the city of Lviv.
authors.affiliation: Medical University, Bobersky Str. 19/48, Lviv, 79015, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Yaroslav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hanitkevych
mesh_terms: D057235:Austria-Hungary; D002947:Cities; D003148:Communism; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D028683:National Socialism; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D011044:Poland; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014586:USSR; D014455:Ukraine; D047789:World War II