Dobromyl

Dobromyl (Ukrainian: Добромиль, IPA: [doˈbrɔmɪlʲ] ⓘ; Polish: Dobromil) is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.

[2] Kingdom of Poland 1374–1772 Habsburg monarchy 1772–1918 West Ukrainian People's Republic 1918–1919 Second Polish Republic 1918–1939 Soviet Union 1939–1941 (occupation) Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation) Soviet Union 1944–1991 Ukraine 1991–present Dobromyl was first mentioned in 1374, as a settlement founded by the Herburt family, upon request of Polish prince Władysław Opolczyk.

In 1566 King Sigismund I the Old granted Magdeburg town rights and established two annual fairs and a weekly market.

Under German occupation, Dobromyl was transferred to Przemyśl County, Kraków District, General Government.

[5] On 29 June 1942, the ghetto was liquidated and most Jews were deported to the Bełżec extermination camp, whereas some 500 stayed in the town, including Judenrat members and Jewish policemen, who bribed the Germans, and were eventually murdered by the occupiers in November 1942.

Town center in the interwar period