In 1415 , under Polish rule , it was granted Magdeburg rights , and subsequently developed into an important trading and manufacturing town . In 1520 , the region was attacked by Crimean Tatars , Hürrem Sultan , a native of Rohatyn , was captured there and sold to the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of which she became his concubine , then his legal wife and haseki sultan . In the 16th century a renowned school of icon painting arose in Rohatyn , and in the 1580s an Orthodox brotherhood was founded obtaining the stauropegion ( a monastery exempt from the control of the local bishop ) status . After the First Partition of Poland in 1772 , Rohatyn was annexed by Austria , and became a county center . A Ukrainian gymnasium was established there in 1909 , and a minor theological seminary in 1931 . In 1910 , half of the town population was Jewish . During the interwar period the town was under Polish rule . In 1939 , it became part of Soviet Ukraine and was granted city status . During World War II , 99 percent of the 3,000 strong Jewish population were murdered in The Holocaust . Today it is an important highway junction ; 26 percent of its inhabitants work in the transportation industry
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Rohatyn