An incredible and dramatic story of humanity during the Holocaust in Lviv.
The history of the shoe factory "Solid" is a fascinating study about the Lviv enterprise near Rynok Square. During the Holocaust, the monks of the Studio Order, with the blessing of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, hid Jews there. This is a story about Fr. Joseph Peters, the "Lviv Schindler", who, as a monk and priest, founded a successful production, which fell into the epicenter of the rescue action of the Head of the Greek-Catholic Church. In the basements of Solid, women, children, and men were hidden, whom the Nazi regime condemned to destruction. During 1942–1944, many of them were hidden and saved from execution. They survived searches, denunciations, diseases, and hunger together with the monks and waited for the end of the occupation.
Yuriy Skira is a Ukrainian historian, religious scholar, and candidate of historical sciences.
Senior researcher at the Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Director of the NGO "Center for the Study of the History of the Eastern Catholic Churches". Head of projects and programs of the Ukrainian-Polish-Slovak border research center of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Author of the monograph "Called: Monks of the Studio Statute and the Holocaust" (Dukh and Litera, 2019).
He focuses his scientific interests on issues related to the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust with the help of the clergy and the monasticism of the Greek Catholic Church.
