Naraiv

Naraiv, also Narayiv, Narajiv (Ukrainian: Нараїв; Polish: Narajów; Yiddish: נאראיעוו, romanized: Narayev; Hebrew: נאראיוב, romanized: Narayuv) is a selo in Ternopil Raion of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

Naraiv is situated along the small river of Naraivka, a tributary of Zolota Lypa in a picturesque natural surrounding of vast beech and hornbeam forests and fertile rolling hills (western part of Podolian Upland, ethno-geographic area of Galician Opillya).

Among them: 1160 Ukrainians, 25 Poles, 330 Roman Catholics (Ukrainians/Poles), 200 Polish colonizers newcomers and 25 Jews.

Prior to the war there was a Jewish community in Naraiv of 805 Jews (in 1939), the most of whom were annihilated during the Holocaust.

In the autumn of 1942, the day after Yom Kippur holiday, the brutal German soldiers arrived from Berezhany gathering all the Naraiv Jews who were not able to find a hideout and took them by trucks to Berezhany.

Direct daily buses for Naraiv leave from the secondary bus terminal at the end of Lychakivska Street in Lviv or the daily bus route (twice a day) for Berezhany (which stops at Naraiv) from the main city terminal in Lviv.

Stamp of the Austrian Empire cancelled in Naraiv in 1858