Skira Y. The Role of the Studite Monks in Rescuing the Jews on the Territory of Lviv Archeparchy of the Greek Catholic Church in 1942 – 1944

Object: monks of the Studite Statute, who participated in the salvation of Jews during the German occupation. Aim: to investigate the features of the hiding of Jews by the monks of the Studite Charter on the territory of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Greek Catholic Church during the Holocaust. Methods: problem-chronological, systemic-structural, comparative- historical, diachronic, retrospective, statistical, oral history. The results: for the first time absent element of the Greek Catholic factor of resistance to the national-socialist totalitarian system regarding the Holocaust is completed that was worked out in the form of a dissertation, a new vision of the initial phase of the rescue of Jews by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in August 1942 was presented, the peculiarities of the hiding of Jews by Studites in urban and rural environments were analyzed, a coherent picture of the shelter of Jewish children in the orphanages of Studite monasteries is reproduced, features of life and everyday life in some of these institutions are comparative; the number of Jews who got help from the Studites, places, monasteries and orphanages, which hid Jews, performers of the salvation action of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, were specified. Scope of use: for writing of regional research in the field of Holocaust studies in the Galician countryside, works on the behavior of the population, individual persons, in extreme conditions of genocide and war relatively the categories of the population designated by the state for the purpose of destruction; works on the history of the Greek Catholic Church during the first half of the twentieth century; textbooks, methodical recommendations on teaching Ukrainian history in secondary and higher educational institutions.