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Eli Brauner rarely makes it to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. When he does, it’s a painful experience for him. His ancestors built a synagogue here in the late 16th century, believed to be the country's oldest partially preserved synagogue.

After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they burned the Golden Rose almost entirely to the ground.

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