Grozovo Ghetto

Grozovo (Yiddish: Hrozove; Belarussian: Hrozau) In the mid-1920s, there were about 700 Jews in Grozov, roughly seventy percent of the population. During the era of Soviet rule, many Jewish wage earners practiced artisan trades, some in cooperatives. Others accepted white-collar jobs in Soviet institutions, while a few turned to farming. Grozov had a Jewish Ethnic Council and a Jewish government school, both of which operated in Yiddish. The Germans occupied the townlet on June 26 or 27, 1941. Some time later, Jewish homes were marked with the word Jude. In September 1941, all Jews in Grozov and the vicinity were concentrated in a ghetto that the Germans established in a former Soviet military camp at nearby Konyukhi. Living conditions were poor and food supplies inadequate. The ghetto was liquidated on December 18, 1941, when the Jews were driven to the forest and murdered