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The article is devoted to the actions of the Polish sanitary service in Lwów during the urban fighting that took place in the city between 1–22 November 1918. Scholarly attention concerning the conflict has so far been focused on issues such as the combat activities of both the Polish and Ukrainian forces, diplomatic efforts and the ongoing international dispute over Eastern Galicia, national and religious factors, and the committing of war crimes. Meanwhile, little interest has been shown regarding the important role played during the conflict of the sanitary service of the Polish Army, who provided aid to the wounded and thus also influenced the morale of the combatants.

"Tadeusz Zaderecki's account was originally published in Hebrew in 1982 by Yad Vashem, and we wish to acknowledge the great effort made by the Hebrew edition editors, Dr. David Kahane and Dr. Aharon Weiss. This English-language edition has the aim of making this unique and important eyewitness report available to a wider international audience. In order to provide the reader with as much information as possible, Yad Vashem decided to include all available commentary in this edition. Notes by the historical editors of the orignal Hebrew edition appear together with those of the historical editor of the English edition, Dr. Witold Mędykowski, in the regular numbered format."--Editorial Note

AbstractThe historiography on the nineteenth-century architecture of Lemberg—and, for that matter, on Lwów, Lvov, and L'viv—remains a contested field among different national camps. At the same time, these conflicting historiographic traditions have not been able to treat the complex history of this multiethnic city in an adequate manner. On the one hand, there exists a prevailing tendency to view the Habsburg period in the city's history through a national lens, highlighting only those facts and figures that would confirm the city being—or becoming—a bastion of a particular national culture. Consequently, Polish and Ukrainian literature often neglected entire projects and even time periods, assuming that, prior to Lemberg's municipal autonomy of 1867, the entire urban planning achievement by the Austrian German-speaking bureaucracy was insignificant to the city's history and had therefore no consequence for the later fin-de-siècle developments. On the other hand, superficial assumptions of Lemberg serving as "crossroads of civilizations" and "little Vienna of the East" lacked a critical perspective and often overlooked significant local phenomena that evolved independently from Viennese or other influence. In arguing against these simplistic assumptions, this paper suggests an alternative, syncretic approach that combines entangled history and a careful treatment of the ethnic dimension in Lemberg's history.