Cherikov

Jews were living in Cherikov as early as the mid-17th century. In 1928 there were two synagogues in the town. The town also had a Yiddish school that was closed in the mid-1938. As late as the 1920s most of the local Jews were craftsmen or merchants although there were also quite a few Jewish members of the intelligentsia. In 1939, 914 Jews (comprising approximately 15 percent of the total population) lived in the town. The Germans occupied Cherikov on July 17, 1941. In October (in another version November)1941 all the Jews in Cherikov were taken to the Mostovoye Ravine where they were shot to death. Jews married to non-Jews and children of mixed marriages were killed in a separate murder operation in 1942. The Red Army liberated Cherikov on October 1, 1943.