Shamovo

Jews were first mentioned as residing in the town of Shamovo in the mid-18th century. In the mid-1920s about 600 Jews lived there, comprising 82 percent of the total population. In the 1920s most Jews were engaged in crafts or commerce until private enterprise was banned by the Soviet authorities in the early 1930s. At the same time dozens of Jews worked in agriculture on kholkhozes located not far from the town. A Yiddish school that operated in the town was closed by the authorities in mid-1938.

The Germans occupied the town in July 1941. On February 2, 1942, with assistance from local policemen, the Germans took all the Jews of Shamovo to the cemetery and murdered them there.

The Red Army liberated Shamovo on June 27, 1944.