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50°30' N 24°02' E, 178.0 miles SE of Warszawa. Liwcze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dołhobyczów within Hrubieszów powiat, Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine 10 km (6 mi) S of Dołhobyczów, 37 km (23 mi) S of Hrubieszów, and 133 km (83 mi) SE of the regional capital Lublin. The village has a population of 40 in 2008. [June 2009]

The Germans destroyed both the synagogue and the cemetery during the Second World War. In 1890, Liwcze was in Galicia. Currently, it is on the Polish side of the Polish-Ukrainian border. Source: Judith Langer Caplan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.[date?]