History
Sokal lay in Polish territory from 1918 to 1944. Its western part (the village of Zhvirka) remained in Poland between 1944 and 1951. Before the Holocaust, Sokal had a Jewish population of 6,000, of whom only 30 survived. The Soviet army liberated the town in July 1944. Omelan Pleszkewycz, co-founder of the Selfreliance Ukrainian American Credit Union in Chicago and president of the World Council of Ukrainian Credit Unions, was born near Sokal and graduated from secondary school there.
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