The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR

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Community:

Krupki

Murder Sites:

The Town Cemetery

The Starozhevitsa River

Commemoration:

Commemoration of Jewish Victims

Krupki

Krupki, Krupki County, Minsk District, Belarus

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The first mention of Jews in Krupki is from the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, there was a thriving Jewish community in the town.
After the Russian Civil War, many Jews left the town, and by 1939 only 870 Jews remained in Krupki, some 25 percent of the total population. At the end of the 1920s, about 40 percent of Krupki’s Jews were craftsmen and laborers. A Yiddish school functioned in the town during the Soviet period.
The Germans occupied Krupki on July 1, 1941. Soon afterwards, a group of 100 Jewish women and children were shot near the town’s cemetery. All the local Jews were concentrated in a ghetto. On September 18, 1941, the Germans liquidated the ghetto. Krupki was liberated by the Red Army on June 28, 1944.